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Show A Fire Chief There, Maybe. j One clay a sympathetic old German j gentleman was leisurely strolling past i one of the city firehouses when he ! was moved by the tears of the captain, j Stopping to offer consolation he said: j "Say, for what you grief? "Oh, replied the captain with a fresh gush of tears, "my poor father is dead. If he had lived just one more day he ' would have been chief of the whole fire department, just think. 5 "Do not so bad feel, said the friend- ! ly old German, patting the fellow on the shoulder, "maybe he is a Are chief now." Prom Norman E. Mack's Na- ' tional Monthly. j |