| Show benefaction bir carnegie in hay set apart to reward heroes v permanent commission lias been established which Is to give money and whenever it believes an act justifies such a gift should anan or woman dlo in the per a courageous deed those left without support are to receive financial assistance orphaned children tiro to bo educated hero survive ho is to be honored with a purse or medal as tho commission shau decide the world recognizes two hinds of heroes each th the negative tho other the one risks his wa to kill the other to fellow men in the battlefield tle field the soldier and the nurse brave shot and shell side by side both of them consecrated to purposes called heroic but as far apart as hell and heaven the general who overwhelms a hundred armies Is extolled as the hero of his nation and made the subject 0 orations paintings and statues the mother who dies in rescuing the child from a blazing tenement house leaves a ih emory to few andis doomed to only 1 for the and peace are ake guerdons guer dons of the car negle commission intended ever Is displayed by man or woman in saving human alfe said mr carnegie in his letter concerning the project the fund applies 1 tiia pea Is the scene of heroic acts and no heroic than that of doctors and nurses volunteering their ser aces inane case epidemics of rait toad employed emp loyes are remarkable lor her elsm all these and similar cases bre embraced in of the royal humane society carnegie adm ins sion may obtain some idea of what th e be no similar record is kept in this country this society furnishes medals only to those who have rescued persons irom drowning and suffocation yet in one year it honored british subjects some time ago this society conferred medals upon two young men who risked their lives to save a couple of kaffir boys from a de beers filamond mine in south africa one pt the youths by the name of brown had been a football player before he became a miner and brand the other was a member of the diamond fields horse of south africa both vere employed in a mine near kimber hy it chanced that brown and brand were about to go into the mine flay when they heard screams and were suddenly knocked down by a swarm ot kaffits firs who came tumbling and sprawling out of the pit mud rush mud rush yelled one who could spead english somewhat letter than the rest of bis black companions pan ions both brown and brand bad been long enough in the diamond mines to know what a mud rush was nothing causes such horror among the blacks as this kind of disaster unlike explosion or flood the mud rush elves no warning to its victims without a bound the black slime swells up from the floor of the mine and catching the miner in its miry grasp it crawls up bis chest so slowly that he may live hours before dealu finally buries him bead and all fortunately a kaffir had seen the first bubble of this mud rush and had spread a general alarm after a hasty count of those who had escaped however it was discovered there were two kaffir boys employed as helpers missing for several hours no plan ot rescue was possible because the t mud oozed out of the mouth of the like mucilage out a bottles mouth at the first sign of its subell i ence a gang was put to work digging out the mire and when an afternoon night and a morning bad parsed the of the mud lay about a foot below the roof of the mine 11 no use in trying to save the kaffir said a veteran miner it they were caught dead but thero is one colacc where the toot la extra high said brown per taps they have hid there where they could keep their heads above the mire dead all right never yon ear said tho superintendent im going in to find out anyway eald brand and the words were hardly spoken before brown clasped his hand and the two plunged into the black river of ooze too thin to support them yet too thick to swim in the young men could only force their way ahead by scooping out the mud with their hands and walking on tiptoe it was impossible to carry a light 60 that they cold only feel their way in the inky darkness now and then the root would descend BO tar as al toos reach the surface of the mud and here they were only able to pro jaent by blowing the mud away from their noses at another time the mud suddenly began to rise t and they were with tho fear they were about to be engulfed la an other rush r there was no answer to their shouts until they reached a place where the f root bagan to slope upward the place where the boag were if they were still alive then low moans met their cars A moment later and the kaffir boys wore in their arms they bad only escaped death by clinging to a crag and thus keeping their headd abobo he river of slime yet with the subsidence of the stream they had no means of knowing if it lad sunk enough to permit them to wade out they were still blinded by an utter darkness but brown and brand led them back to daylight and safety when the work was begun on the north river tunnel one tuba of which w completed only the other day a bokman saved seven out of thirty five mn by an act which would havo been honored by a hero commission had there been one then tho men had gone down into the tunnel lust after midnight when one of the them water pouring through a leak in the iron rc plates there was an airlock at the landward end of ilia tunnel a rectangular chamber fifteen feet long anal alx feet in adlam acter with both of Itil ron doors ing toward the tunnel when the i went out ordinarily they opened the i pair of doors stepped into tho t wt ad then waited tho adf fahd to that ot the outside atmosphere then and not til then could they open the outer doerfl at the alarm peter woodland s dane and the foreman of the gang yelled to his fellows get into tha lock boys and get along lively to help them bo ran back and pushed them maeby one toward the lock aalthe eighth man parsed him however he fell across the threshold of the inner doors As ho did so the root began to cave in pe tereon by this time was up to his neck in the foul slimy water which had leaked down trona the river bottom the doors of fhe lock would not shut j because 0 the prostrate body nip off your clothes isid shove them in between the doors shouted the foreman never mind me I 1 cant get into the lock now in mad haste the men stripped and stuffed their clothes in the crack still the water leaked in there was a glass bullseye bulls eye in the outer door which it broken in an emergency permitted the compressed air of the lock to rush out and thus permit the opening ot the locks outer doors knock out the bullseye bulls eye yelled Pc terson who now stood a alp toa in the mire well he knew that his order meant his own death As soon as the compressed air was rele asci the root dt the tunnel would cave in completely sone one crashed the glass and the doors swung back at the same instant the river poured down into the tunnel drowning all those twenty eight men like so many rats in a hole according to the english societies which seek to honor the heroes of peace there are as many bomea as men who defy death in a supreme emergency at the time ot the queens jubilee the roll of honor compiled by F donald mackenzie showed a list of heroines who had achieved deeds conspicuously brave in the victorian era one case for example was that of mrs dorothy D pumphrey of crowborough Crow borough sussex county on a may afternoon mrs pumphrey wag in her house when her boy dashed in with the news that a neighbors chiu had fallen down an old well by the time she reached the scene there were several women around the well from which could be heard intermittently the pitiful cries of a little girl though of slight physique and nervous disposition mrs bumph rey told the other housewives to grasp the rope and therewith she stepped into the rickety bucket which hail stood out in the sun until it had nearly fal leu to pieces they lowered her to the bottom where she found ho child hanging to a ledge the little ono was so weak that her rescuer just reached her in time to prevent her from slipping into the water holding both herself and the little girl above tho water she ordered the bucket ralsey so that her twelve year old son might come down after the child the son performed the task successfully and on the bucket being let down again the mother was half way up when she fainted and fell to the bottom by this second immersion the plucky little woman took hold of the bucket again and was haulcy up safely another woman who has obtained medals tor heroism from the governments of france germany and belgium Is lady algot durtan tho prussian war she accompanied tho Gern lany army as a nurse and after surviving a score of battles and being arrested as a spy establishing a hospital in a factory where she cared for forty wounded men unaided she abandoned he army only when threatened with blood poisoning As soon as sho recovered her health however she went back following one army and then tho other into the thick ot the battle A hero of peace in american waters who recognition of the governments ern ments of both england and the united states was a negro allson mc field one 0 the crew of the schooner dolphin wrecked by a hurricane off the cayman rocks of nicaragua tho boat bottom up and after bic field had dragged five of his comrades out of the sea on to this raft like refuge a knocking was heard against the timbers as of como one that had been imprisoned in the overturned cabin mcfield dived down with rope in his teeth and groping about the submerged deck found a hatchway and ascended until his head popped out of the water and struck heavily against a post the blow stunned him tor a time but recovering his wits he crawled toward the cabin there he found two of the crew mallitz a young rubber cutter and obando a halfbreed halt breed stevedore clinging to a splinter of wood the rope around the waist of signalled signal led to haul him la arid he guided the youth through the hatch out from under the artes and up through the outside batti after a short rest he rescued efti eed in the same way |
