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Show j3ccco5ooooooooocoaocoooooooco Fruitless Infatuation A BRAVE DEEDS THAT HAVE WON CARNEGIE MEDALS By T. W. Hanshew ao0ooeooosccecooooeoeooooooGCoocosocooo&6cco by Joseph B. Howlm.) (Copyright, bit I am Pettifer. whose papa had day-w- ben quite, uite sure it he depart-- f Is best for us both I will yield tc could no long-I- your wishes and cousent to lace where he meet nen that day comes, however you a monopoly, first appeared Lord Clarrlckstons write and tell you. the horizon of For two weeks at a dance In London. darriekstoa wo.e beau-- , ono her of smiled ne,it ll!a undershirt and sadle 110000.000 smiles upon him. and faithfully read it each night before J Imp of a brother aged going to bed, Pettifer , return for favors received in JVT.M.flt.thh ,'er,od he happened foul of a newspaper secretly impart-'th- e which Wav of Sade gave a glowing account of an abnorintelligence that Ma and counters for mally large Sunday gathering at hunting the bargain Island whei eat , and bad come over to see what Coney according to the hookin' reporter worth up market pretty nearly everyIn the body of note in the show business was. as usual, present, and this "In the market was put Wrickston In the market, an Idea into his head. one Very much He dressed himself in his Bond earldom 500 years old, a mort-his ancestral street best and flew to Coney by 80,000 on 0f trolley, if she was L g racing stud, a yacht and ly-chartered there he caught no glimpse of her Wh unpaid bills to paper a room however; but that did not deter him Cja enough to hold both. from going again the next day, and of a relative Bat the sudden death the next, and the next after that, unhome before tailed the Pettifers til another week had gone and Despair winning post was even in sight, sat once more upon the heartstone of as singular coincidence 1, "by hla Hopes. ten irrkkston put it In his letter Hy tins time He nau Become con1 his doctor ordered vinced ,i afterward that search for her In this to take a soa voyage and over he particular section of the universe was wake. In their a as unlikely to produce the desired rePettlfers season .abroad sult as a Miss watching the stage door of what might be called the d not been Hippodrome had been, and he had inwllng success and the bidders for Just made up his mind to abandon the long purse and short upper lip field when something happened which re neither so many nor so eager as sent a sort of electrical shock zigClarrlckston have could wished, ! up and down hla spinal colarms and a zagging a received with open umn. dinner party, It was merely the passing of at In an evil hour Master Tommy, young woman a very gaudily-dresseng to return some of the favors strident-voiceIn young woman as well as to ex- endeavoring to get by him who, )wn him abroad in the it tome of the Institutions of his crowd and Join some other gaudily istry, had suggested a visit to the dressed young women who had gone Hippodrome where "La on in advance, had managed to catch pillion, the Worlds Greatest and the lace flounce of her parasol in the was prongs of his Jeweled scarf st Beautiful Aerial Artiste pin, breath-stillin- g her ;htly performing And it was here that Clarrlckston l Now the whole race of Clar-sto- n received the shock. For, in the frac had been beauty, worshipers tlon of time her hands had been busy the first and most reckless order. tugging at the lace, he had seen 3e haunted the stage door of the sparkling on her wriat the lndentical ppodrome as the Thomas Cat haunt-th- e jeweled bracelet be bad sent to La hiding place of the freshly-rchase- d Paplllion in the early days of his In codfish, but If she ever fstuation. ne forth he saw her not; for the Clarrlckston waited until she was , men who Issued at the close of near the door and then walked forh performance were young enough ward and met her face the world unveiled and not Well, Ive run you down you see,1 of them bore even the remotest said Clarrlckston, severely. "I hope emblauce to the object of his wor- you know, young woman, that its criminal offense to be found in pos le sat down and wrote a letter session of stolen property. ' tent It to her with a great I didnt steal anything. icb of scarlet carnations and Til know more about that when I fern, asking her, out of pity have confronted you with the person him to wear his flowers if she to whom I gave Jhe bracelet you are re not a married woman and to dls-- i wearing and heard from her whether jhem if she was. And lo! when she has lost it or not. came on for her "turn" that night '"She hasnt lost it, I tell yer. She ayed from head to foot in white lent it to me she always lends it to silver, a little cluster of hla car-o- me. was pinned upon her shoul- "Ill believe that when I hear her say so. lie fiiew next "I tell yer she wont see yer. Now morning to Tiffanys exchanged 100 of the 500 pounds let it go at that. had brought over with him to "Look here! she said, laying a lay P to the oilman's heiress, for a shaking hand in Clarrickstons sleeve. Kfnt of diamonds, clear as a sliver "Shes in there now a gettin ready for ice. and sent it to his Inamorata her turn. I know, for Id ought to been here half an hour ago to help with her clothes. Now, If I go agin orders and take yon behind and let you speak to her will you take your solemn oath not to say I stole the noththings and not to prosecute nor Will yerr in? thought of nothing, Clarrlckston cared for nothing, but the chance to in all speak with Her the one "Her the world for him and let his hand slide from the woman's shoulder. he said, eagerly. "Yes, 1 YeH, will." Her hand closed tighter on hla him sleeve; she half led, half raced In through and along the pavement the stage entrance, and thence, by lit by dusty stairs and winding mays Jets gas The to a room beneath the stage. It open door was closed. She pushed and drew Clarrlckston in. The lights were burning brightly the room hung enough here. All round now knew the costumes Clanlrkaton here a end. far the at and. bv heart on a peg. hair hung wig of long light or three a young fellow of two himself b tt was shaving her, if there was any hope, for and twenty np on tne to wear it on her person that fore a little mirror propped shelf. b And behold! when he looked dressing-rooof the r aet The mirror reft cried the face standing cn the stage m,B and entered, she as siting to be hauled up by her woman drew the the nickeled bar above the catching a glimpse of It. and mm crescent blazed In a broad razor slong his Jaw B hat the dick Mag! "P of rainbow splendor on the cheerily. "Hello. hnd of velvet she always wore ens kept yer? He forward. 11 her throat. Ing Clarrlckaton for Wf,In me pinched have to ,nd nce ony he bad gone goln bracelet. Jltnmy-- as though . 'ogth of answering his fre- - that to wea PP1 with a note, and that, woman alut got a rlshtIf he h r husband. uh it iifnd Mm Up to the n gave to her the nar across turned The shaver of human happiness at me, began t last to weigh uion me! said "M;" ,ter the fashion of "a hope csadie "f h,J pne" in oil before v in i( .ii lll box-seat- L special- ns II! d na 1 as-ig- Carnegie conceived the novel Idea of discovering and rewarding true heroism wherever It may occur. For this purpose a hero fund commission was appointed whose preliminary labors have now been completed. Deeds of daring, whether by land or sea, In the effort to save life, have received due recognition In this way, while the task of the commission has resulted, besides, in bringing together a Berles of little tales of human pluck, endurance and the reading of which Is bound to give an uplifting sense of some of the noblest qualities of men and women when brought face to face with the peril that, at some supreme moment, threatens the lives of their fellow beings. Of the 63 cases of heroism which the commission, after prolonged and careful Investigation, has deemed worthy of public recognition, the following have been selected on account of the novel human Interest which characterizes them. They tell of the courage and humanity of men, women, and even children. In all walks of life, and In every section of the United States. Not every hero thus chronicled has succeeded In the rescue that he has planned, while numbers have lost their own lives In the effort to save the lives of others. It forms a striking record altogether unique among human annals, and may be taken as a true and lasting tribute to love of man for the man. under cover, saw the Imminent peril of his comrade, and dashed out to save him. He caught him as he was about to stumble over a precipice and dragged him back over the place where the blast waa to be set off. Both men were caught, however, within the danger line and both were badly hurt. Hughes clothing caught fire from the flames which enveloped the body of Owens, whom he saved., and for a long time he was Incapacitated from work. The commission has sent him a silver medal and $250. Maude Titus medals. Two years ago she was taking an outing In the country with a friend, Harry E. Schoenut, a lad of 16. The two tramped through the woods and along the aide of a rocky ravine. The latter gave but a poor footing to pedestrians, and In jumping across a rift between two boulders Schoenut slipped and fell. There was an angry whirr and rattle of sound, and before he could Bave himself the fangs of a rattlesnake were fastened In Schoe-nut- s arm. The reptile darted back Into his hole beneath the rock, but almost Instantly his victims arm began to swell and turn black. Thoroughly terrified, Schoenut declared that he was dying, and Implored hla companion to save herself from possible danger. Miss Ernst, however, tore the young mans sleeve from his arm, and, applying her lips to the wound tyiade by the rattler, tried to suck out the poison. This she did at Imminent peril to herself, as she knew, because a cut on her own lip brought her Into the most dangerous contact with the poison. Once during the operation the intrepid girl cut a gash In Schoenuts arm, to make the blood come faster, as she afterward expressed it. The boy fainted at the sight of hla own blood, and it was only by beating him In the face that Miss Ernst succeeded In reviving him and keeping him moving. Half dragging, half carrying him, she finally reached a clubhouse a mile away from where the accident hap She carried the unconscious pened. lad up the clubhouse steps, her dress from the neck down spattered with blood, and fell In a faint beside him Medical assistance was procured and Schoenuta life was saved. In Case Bay, near Yarmouth, Me., in the summer of 1904, a deed of generous heroism was performed by. a girl of 16. Maude Titus, a student at the Newark (N. J.) high school, was out on a pleasure trip In a sailing yacht with some of her friends. An accident occurred In changing the course of the yacht, and the captain, his niece, Miss Titus, and her friend, Miss Relfsnyder. were thrown Into the water. The captain rescued his niece by a lifeline which had been thrown to him from the boat, and be himself then followed her to safety, leaving Miss Titus and Miss Relfsnyder to struggle for themgelves in the waves. Miss Titus was a poor swimmer, and her friend was utterly helpless In the water. Instead of striking out for the boat, however, which she could have reached with ease. Miss Titus re-raained with the girl. She did not attempt to awlm with her, Michael O'Brien A fire broke out in a crowded tene but took bold of her, calmed her, and endeavored to hold her head above ment at One Hundred and Tenth water until a boat waa sent to the street and Third avenue three years rescue. For this act of heroism Miss ago. So combustible was the material ) g i y,n how much I appreciate) J1' '"'loess, the honor you do me, knn happy circumstance which Drought you into my life. I do ow why I write you, for I have . nered a mana note before, iw. y ay whout boasting that Solved hundreds of them. I re for men: they have no nm' or- - t least, they never 1 ;,you rm ,nt my life- - If "M have that intercut grow, 1 ou do not seek to know me time at least. me ,7 Ior ,, !! ?, jvim, 7 lr lit brfrt nU I. ir c I-- u and study myself, and some tut former nurse hurtlin' 1"1 years ago by one of those freshets that so often occur In that part of the country. In its course the flood had torn an unwieldy barge from Its moorings. Alone on board was Howard McCarney, a youth who could not swim. Ills old time friend, James W. Gilmer, who had worked with him for years on a towboat, saw the flying barge, knew that McCarney waa on it, and knew, too, that the runaway vessel was heading for a great dam a short distance below on the river. It meant certain death to McCarney If some quick act was not carried out to save him. Gilmer Jumped into a skiff and raced after tbe barge. McCarney had a long start of him, and the sound of the waters foaming over the dam reached Gilmer before he was well under way in his little craft. He hoped to get near enough to the barge for McCarney to Jump Into the skiff, and then together they could row to the shore. But the barge was going too swiftly, In the eddying currents the skiff was too unmanageable, and before he could reach him Gilmer saw his friend hurled over the rapids above the dam. So appalled was he at the fate of hla friend that he forgot his own safety. He floated down to the danger point, jumped from tbe skiff into the boiling flood and the dead bodies of the two friends went down the river side by side. A bronze medal and $200 has been awarded by the commission to Gilmer's father In commemoration of his sons daring 1 thought I had an even chance, thats more than the poor old srs Titus has received a silver medal. her Ths commission has also given eduher In completing to assist $1,000 girls father, Richard Hughes name Dynamite Hero Is the been given to Richard s hk Hughes, of Bangor. Pa., by of powder giant An explosion blinded Richard Owens Just as he off another lighted the fuse to set out of blast Unable to find his wsy his clothing on fire. with and danger for the Instant death teemed certain soon as the as Just man. unfortunate would snerk from the second fuse would be blown he the powder reach that has com-rade- fel- That Is the way Harry E. Moore, a fireman of Alliance, O., explains why he tried, two years ago, to run ahead of his own train and save the life of a drunken farmer. Moore was riding on the pilot of his coal train when he saw an old farmer sitting In a stupor on the Heedless or track. Signaling to the engineer to The DEADLY check the speed of the train as much as possible, Moore waited until he Reptile was within 75 feet of the prostrate ttENTTOm man and then and unconscious Rescue as hard as he could, Racing jumped. Moore was overtaken by his own engine and knocked to one side of the track, the wheels taking off three finIn the building that the whole house gers of his left hand. The farmer was In flumes before the firemen was killed Instantly. Moore has rerould reach the acene. To passers-bceived a bronze medal and $500 from there teemed to be no hope fo a res-cu- the Carnegie commission. for many of those who were Im Stillwell place, for the Wiliam prisoned In the The youngest of all those selected endanre to the house was completely rut off by the falling of Ignited tint for recognition by the commission,Bell-alr-a tiers which tilled all the hallways with boy of 13, Is Willie Stillwell, of Willie had never been Mich. debris and smoke. The outside shell of the building, however, remained in known as a strong swimmer, but when tact, and ou a Are escape on the one of his playmates,' Ruth Schoolfourth floor stood a mother, Mrs. lies craft. who was more than a foot tallsle Eyl, and her two children, tmplor er than he, fell Into Intermediate lag help from the people In the street river, Willie as quick at the rescue. below. Among the latter stood Michael He was wise enough not to get In the P. O'Brien, a young plasterer and a clutches of tbe girl, but, swimming by near neighbor to Mrs. Eyl. Accus- her side, held her up with one arm tomed to scale buildings unaer pie- - while he swam with the other, thus low ahead of me had. A I'"' ' m riE eepweg Sirsr - SOMrtEtfMEPECMfflr and cation, Dr. Titus, the having recently died. ?' Campbell never spoke One day, about three years ago, the alarm went out that James Gilmer South had fallen Into the river at the A race to death in a Monongahela end of a great coal chute. Campbell river flood was the end of two friends, hoard the alarm and rushed to the one of whom was trying to save tbo river. There was no sign of South, other. The waters of the river had who, he knew, could not swim, and It man had been swelled to giant proportions two was evident that the Harry Moore sev-hHve- can-- Smith and "Ed ,to each other. act., 1' "I For more than a year there waa a bitter feud between two young coal miners at Buena Vista, a little mining town on the Youghlogheny river, near Pittsburg. Just what tbo trouble was but has never been made known; whether In the mining camp or on the rigor or In the boarding house where they both lived together, George It was a unique deed of heroism that won for Miss Ernst, of Philadelphia, one of the commissions silver wire-hoode- that note ran. Edward Campbell Lucy E. Ernst dlmly-burnln- Sir, bringing her safely to shore. Th commission has awarded a bronze medal to the boy aud has aet aside foe him the sum of $2,000, with which ha will pay for an electric engineers course In college. y SXOCOOCOOSCCOSOOOOOOCCOBOOCOOOCOOCCCOOOOC New York. Two years ago Andrew to atoms. Hughes, who waa I rT,rkep carious conditions, OBrien qotskly determined on a plan of rescue. Dashing up tbe stairways of an adjoining house until he reached the fourth floor, he made hla way along a series of window ledges to the fire escape where Mrs. Eyl and her terrified children stood. From this perilous position he passed the latter to persons In a neighboring fiat, and then handed Mrs. Eyl, who was unconscious from fright and the suffocating effects of tbe smoke, to a fireman who mounted a ladder to one of the ' fourth-storwindows. O'Brien himself nearly lost hla life In the flames and smoke, and was carried to the street by firemen. The commission has awarded him a stlvor medal for bis bravery. been swept by a current under a large coal barge that was lashed to the pier. It was all a mans life was worth to dive Into the eddy of waters that stretched before him, but tearing off his coat Campbell took the risk. After a desperate struggle with the treacherous tldeR, and diving repeatedly under the barge, Campbell found his man where he had expected, wedged the hull of the vessel between some d iftwood. It took all of Campbells strength, working under water, to get the limp body of his enemy to the surface. lie succeeded finally only to find that the man for whose safety he had risked his own life, and whom he had onre cordially hated, was dead. The commission has sent a bronze medal to Campbell. be-nea- lh Sadie L Crabbe Ralph Young, a colored boy, broke through the Ice on the Great Wicomico river, Virginia, two years ago. Young had strayed away from a party of skaters further up the river, and ventured upon ice that hud not been tried. It was a lonely section of the country, and when the boy fell into the water his cries for help wero heard only by a white woman, Mrs. Sadie L Crabbe, who was walking along the bunk of the river Seizing a plank which lay near by, Mrs. Crabbe endeavored to reach the struggling negro. So euger was she in this attempt to save the colored boys life that she ventured too far out on tbe tee, which broke beneath her. Young, at whose piteous appeal she had taken one step too far, evidently forgot his own plight when he saw Mrs. Crabbe fall Into the water aud tried to save her. Both the white woman and tbe colored boy, however, were drowned. A bronze n.adal baa been sent by tbe commission to Mrs. Crabbes husband In commemoration of her bravery. The sum of $2,000 also has been appropriated to be used In the education and upbringing of Mrs. Crabhe's children. Arthur Simon Only 15 years of age was Arthur Simon and he had just learned to' swim when he rescued two girls from drowning in a lake near Valparaiso, Ind., two years ago. Cie or the girls was hla sister, and both of them were much older and weighed a good deal more than Arthur. At an alarm given he plunged Into the hy his mother lake. Neither of the girls was In sight. Diving to the bottom, be found them locked In each other's arms. Breaking them apart, he rose to the surface with them. He swatn to the shore, which was about 40 feet away, with one girl, and then came back tor his sinter, who, with her great weight, nearly dragged hltn to the bottom. She almost strangle! the boy several times, but finally he landed her In safety. The commission has sent Arthur a bronze meual. When little, girls cry tor dolls; when big, for dollars. |