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FOUGHT FLAMES HEROICALLY. Sixty New York Firemen Are Over come by Smoke-Men Fought with Desperate Uourage to Rescue Comrades. New York, May 14.-Sixty fire men, practically every man in seven fire companies were overcome by smoke in fighting a firo in the Rm ington Typewriter -building, at 325 Broadway, today. More than a score of the men were taken to hospitals, wheftre sixteen- of 'thei remaiin to night. It was one of the hardest fights New York fireien have had, anld never was there more bravery shown. The fire was in the sub basement of the building, and for more thaii two hours the men fought lesperately. But for the heroism shown many would have lost their lives. The fire originated in an unex plained mmmier in t.he Rub-basement, which was fillod with desks packed in excelsior, oil and carbon pap)er. These trenv off great masses of choking smoke which made it impos-1 sible for the mien to reach the seat. of tle fire. By comniiies t.he men at loinptd to dlescendl into the basement only to be overcome by smoke, and the next dtachmllent was coipelled to varr: the unlco1i'inSe1m- usienl up to thle sidewav;lks. MINUel. halt, vol--iolls t lieisel Ves, -1-41evd inl tihe smoke cholikedl vellar by the ji"lht of hanterns, fun.i- t.heir coimrl'ades and stWrulled wit themi u1p the ladders to tile sidewalk, only to fall swoonin. but. ready to ret.urn to the fight aftor they Iad got a breath of, fresh air. Splendid service was rendered by the scores of women emp11oved inl the building, Where the fire was, and in niearby offices. These girls, directed by the ambulance surgeons, knelt oi the side walks and assisted in bring ing the unconscious firemen back to life. Janitors' wives, in nearby buildings, dragged the hedding and mattresses from t.heir bedis down to the street. t make rest1ing places for the sufferers. Priests from nearby' churches and fire (e)artient. chap lains aided in the work for rescue. Score (0f the firemen were overvoimev tine al agin, eaen one rushing 'back into the bnildinlg as soon as lie recovered cni )( ousniess. Notlin",g could stop Ol.ei until hos )itall doctors bnndled thei into ai bulalnces andli huried them away to t.he hospitals. Among those in the hospIitils several are in a serious condit.ion, although it is thought, all will recover. The11, steais from the hose lines could not reach file fires directly, aldl it was n1o4 until the sub-basement wa. prattivally full of water that the the fire n( 4 conit.r-olled. lBroadlway\ was blocked for li1uirs by a trenmen dou.s crowd of onlookers. The loss am1ounted t n tre t.han4mo $10,000. A DEFENSE OF THE AMERICAN TOAD. Zach'l Mc( hee'~ ini The ('ohimnbi a State. Timo toad, oir as thme chibiliren camll it, muost miaii.cod of all animals, is ably fdeelat4d bly te I'ited( State dlepart iien1it of1 asricultunre. Tni fact the nt ural hitr xperts at thle depart ment ha ve' seeni lit to issue a special buillet in on1 "Th[le Usefulness'5 of' the Amiericani IT)ad. '' Mr. Kirkland, who 15 one4 of' tIhe entiomiologists or' some .othier kinad of igists, at the agicultlure departmen1'it, is the sp'cial "ch'1am peen"l of t' toadl frog. Mr'. Kirk land says lhat thle toad frog bias al ways "h' orne the burden of false and 'even ludicrous misreprieseiitationi. THe woutldl indeed put him ini a class neith another much maligned gentle 2nan, the b)illy goat. who in spite of -all of his good qualities is like what E~ditor' Stead says of woman-the people will not take him seriously. So it is, Mr. Kirkland says, with the toad and this is why the lie has pr'e prda 16t-pag~e blletI ein to4 se't lie 10oa1 frog righmt in thle world. Mr. K irkl anid adminits in thle ouitset tha l "iI''to s ome thle toad can never be an attract ive animal. Nat ure has de prived it of thle gay' colors of' birdl life aiid teen the sinuiouis beauty of somei of' its reptilian relatives. Yet,'' he con tinuned, " 'judglted by thle stan - dard of' good wo'trks, the oadl does inot suffer b)y complarisoni with any of the lowver aniials." This is the time of the year when the toads hop in the roads and little boys' and little girls prod them with sticks to see thonm hop; feed them on shot; pen -them up int corners of the fence to see by what peculiar antics they will get out; and otherwise dis port themselves in the fascinating company of the toad frog. The toad is a mysterious animal. He is re puted to be0 possessed of such pecul iar properties that lhe is both a faci nation and a terror to the little chil diren. Nobody knows where lhe came from or wlgere he is going, or how long he has lived here. And his hon while in this world is enshrouded lil many ot his personal attributes, mystery. It bas been said that toai have been found ih midst of soli rocks alive, ready to hop out fu grown, armed and equipped, even- i Minerva sprang from the head < Jove, having been there ,-perhap thousands of years, or having had r birth or beginning at all, just can down through the centuries, "ug] and venolmenous, wears yet a preciot jewel in his head." Now Mr. Kirl laud points out that it is no sue thing. T4iore is no such jewel in th toad's head in the first place, and n toad within the range of his exper, ence and investigations has eve been found shut up in a rook for thousand years. On the contrary h points out that once a French entc mologist imbodded three toads i; plaeter and placed them in the ax chives of the French Academy , o Seience. He also tells of other toad shut Aup in tand stone and lim stone. The toads died in a shor time, though they lived perhaps Ion ger than any other animal knowi would have lived under similar cir eiistances. Mr. Kirkland evidently pokei sicks at the tails of toads when I was a little boy, and he tells us witt ome evidently memory of his earl hppy days of how "in Southern lat. itiles March finds them wakened tfroim fheir winter slee) and begin. iing i their annual migration toward tle breeding points, where a little lat .r is heard the soft drowsy musical trillitg of the males so well describ d1 by Gibson as 'the sweetest song i liaile.pP9 Another thing Mr. Kirkland wants milerstood, and that is that the toad s not venomous. At least, it is not Venolmlus to 1.ith huma-n- skin and the exuditions from its skin of a cer taini milky acrid fluid, does not harm lte humnan hands, though it does very nueh1VI discomfort a dog who tries to )i t lie toad. Therefore, a dog does iot hother a toad. Now theiv are all sorts of other things told us abont toads by Mr. Kirklanld, all sorts of interesting lhings. But where he coies to the lefetee of the toad-where lie comes to tie delence of himself for spend tng so -liluch tiie on this toad busi lit"s an1d puttiig tile governmient to thev expt-nse of, pitingi. and circlat mng a bulletin on the subjeet-is when ie tells what the load eats. The toad trog is qiiite much of an eater. He eat;s bu.1gs and beetles. wormns, ants, ea-tepillars, grasshoppers, spiders and a good mainy other things. espe vialy destructitive things. In otler Wor*ds. te toad Irog earns his right I, live ini this world, and to hop and 14 vx1ht this Iysterions, aerid fluid from his skin,, by eating up other lilinals whieb are dangerous to liu ini Ii1'e and health or destructive to property. The load frog particular ly likes t hoiisandi-hegged wvorms. Mr. Kir'klandl says that one toad frog has beenQI k nown to eat 77 thlousaind-.leg ted om ait onie meal, 37 tent enter 'illars ot another meal, 65 gipsy 'nothls at another, anid 55 army worms a nother. Tfhe toad frog has a good iappetite. But of' all thle things lie 'Iats lie is partieniiy fond131( of these dangerous anmd destructive worms, hugs, eto. Mir. Kirkland has figured mt that of the food the toad cats, 62 per' centi. conisists of these injurious Tloads should not he killed by a man or lit tIe boys~ or little girls. Ev emybody knows thait, knew it before Mr. Kirkland said so. In fact, it is Ia ngerous to kill toad frogs. There is no telling what might happen to a little boy 'litle girl who kills a toad grok. I' ... ks, owls, crows, snake, and skunks kill toad frogs. Little boys and little girls ought not to want to be classed with hawks, owls, crows, snakes and skunks. The toad frog, all in all, is a very le'Sirabile citizen. Bringing Immigrants South. Mulanu fact iirers' Record. It may he safely est.imateod that be. t'.een 150.000 and 200,0)00 settlers ha ve baeen alttract ed to the south, anel that het ween 2,000,000 and 3,00.0, 100) acres of land have been bouglh by t hem duiring thle past 12 months This estimate is based upjoni rep'lort fuirnishied by rep)resentat ives of lead ing rail roads operating pincipallyv it the south, and they reveal most graf. ifying results' of the practical worn wthiich (lie railroads are doing in thi eause of immigration to the south These results are, to a large extent cumulative, flowing from persistent work carried on in some instances foi 10 or 15 years and promising over greater records in the near future They have been gained through fol lowing different policies. Some rail. roads have lands of their own wIll hiave' been disposed of to settlers 01 thei' own seeking or to agents work. ing in co-operation with them. Oth. er roads, not lndholders, hv d ie reeted' the newcomers to a Ole :e homes within their territory, and yet n other roads have combined indusrial Is upbuilding with agricultural develop. d ment. They have carried ow a cam 11 paign in this country and in fo-eign is parts by means of the widespread of circulation of literature descriptive t of the advantages of the South and Lo its opportunities for the industrious e and thifty, of exhibits of -Southern y agricultural and mineral products is and of personal pontact with heads of - families who would better their con h dition in life. Estimating the value e of a man to the community at at o least $2,000, the additions to the i. South's wealth in one year through r the energies of immigiation 4gents a of the railroads may be safely plac e ed at $400,000,000, or about one-third . of the increase of its wealth in goods i and chattels during the same period. 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