f The Senatoi and hiu fellow judges uau reaa stories m the great Collier's short storj contest of last year until their eyes , were almost blind, their brains almost too weary for consecu tive thought and their ideas almost too cnaotic from the long continued strain to allow an unbiased decision, When the distinguished statesman- scholar took from the table the last of the many thousands of manuscripts bnt ra, ngnted a fresh Havana, and settled himself wearily In tha depths of his big arm chair. ' The sigh of satisfaction was still more pronounced, when, as he tore open the envelope, he found but a few pages of . typewritten matter, Bcarcely a thousand words In all, and his "Thank Heaven!" was re-eoched by his companions as thev also realized that I a short hair hour would complete their weeits or seir-imposed labor. There had been silence In the room for, several minutes, while the others were thinking of the jumble of ideas that would for months occupy their minas wnere love and war, humor and pathos had created a heterogeneous mass. Many of the stories submitted had been of a very high order of merit some of the very highest and final decision would, they realized, tax to the utmost their ability to select Some had been witty and brilliant, some able but verbose, but many, very many, bad proven tediouB and trashy, and they each and all agreed they would never again care to read even the headlines of any "Short Story." "God!" exclaimed the Senator, half reverently, half profanely, "and so this was the tragic end of our dear chum of.old '71, one of the best and bravest fellows who ever lived." "For tha honor of old Harvard, gen tlemen," bowing gravely to ills asso ciates, "let me read aloud tbls last of our short .stories." He sauntered into Station 17 of the Fire Department, late one stormy af ternoon in December, a small, gray haired, rather weazened specimen of humanity, looking as though he had not made the acquaintance of a square meal tpr many days. A close observer, however, wild have noticed tat hi? . eyes were very brlgh and keen, his round the room, and his youne oof testant showed no little chagrin, for wis naa peen nis ravorite exhibition, which none of his associates had been able to accomplish. The old fellow continued unconcern edly: "Now if it were a trial of strength, perhaps some of you younger fellows could tire the old man out." Then springing like a cat, he caught with his right hand one of the rounds of a ladder by which the men climbed to the second story, and pulled him self up with a single arm. Lowering himself, he repeated this "chinninir" operation several times with great rapidity, first with one arm and then the other. Dropping to the floor he strolled over to a pair of 100 cound iron dumb-bells and be.c-an handling the heavy weights as if they were hol low or made of wood, passing the bells from hand to hand, poising them on high without a tremor, and finally lay ing them down without even the no ticeable quickening of his breath. The men looked sharply at one an other. Not the best of them could give such an exhibition of strength. The sergeant was just growling, "Old man, who might you be, anyway?" when the alarm gong sounded, the firemen sprang lo their places and the little old athlete was temporarily forgotten. A close observer, however, might have noted him dart out of the door and vanish around the corner with the speed of a trained runner. The ' fire was in a lately finished apartment house and wa3 well under way when the engines arrived. Lad ders were quickly placed against the building, and the brave firemen made many trips, up and down, rescuing the rnghtened occupants. Finally all the inmates appeared to be saved and ef forts were directed toward extinguish ing the fire or preventing its spread.' Suddenly, everyone was startled By the wild screams of a child, and a lit tle girl, of not more than ten years, whose scanty apparel gave evidence that she had but just awakened, appear ed at a window of the top floor, wring ing her little hands and crying in ex treme terror, as well she might, for the fierce flames were bursting from all the lower floors of the building. Ladders were set beneath her window, and several of the more daring firemen at- aided his evidently' failing strength down the steep incline. But the pitcher had been to the well once too olten and even while the cheers and words of encouragement were sounding in his ears, the life blood gushed from his mouth, and sinking heavily to the ground mur mured, "Hold tight, little one," and the brave old heart suddenly ceased its busy work. "He's dead, the dear old fellow, sav ing a young life of which he had never heard," whispered one to the other, and a young minister, who, from the first, had watched the scene with an intense interest, bent over the body, and detaching a Greek letter badge from the vest, read to the sympathiz ing crowd, "J. R. H., Harvard, '71," adding revently as he removed his tall hat: "Greater love hath no man than this." To their credit, there were real tears In the eyes of these big, strong men of the world, as in silence they touched glasses with the Senator to the mem ory of that classmate, whose soul was still marching on, and whose heroic death had added another Btar to old Harvard's glory. CRUSADE AGAINST VICE. The Creat Work of Anthony Com stock has Brought Splendid Results. 1 j fflL.,, ., ..... -Hi I I i L j' "J If t 'J't '(. 1 . .awassw fk jf 1' j v . ' ; . i I.-. kM.v.fir.nW- I. -wtmnlt- KlT. fcM.M.'.W ,. M"jgi-i "ftY Iff-f THEY TOUCHED GLASSES TO THE MEMORY OF THAT CLASSMATE." muscles well knit, his gait ' springy, and would, perhaps, have decided that his physique did not require a very - large amount of sustenance and that he was Ignorant of the pangs of dys pepsia. Speaking to no one in particular, he remarked with a peculiar drawl: I sometimes think I would enjoy a job of this sort myself. It looks com fortable here." "Seventeen" was. known as the crack company of the force. Its members were, -all athletes and it had to its credit an unparalleled record of bril liant and impossible rescues. At these words of the old man, grim smiles broke over the faces of the half doaen men present. A young fireman, one of the most powerful and athletic Of the entire department, replied: "Why, grandpap, we have to do things here when the bell rings. Chil dren aren't allowed on the force." "I know they are not, sonny, but after all, I judge that age isn't the onlv thing that counts in this game." "I'll tell you, grandpap," the young fellow added with a wink to his com panions, "if you can follow me in a fe little exercises we have here morn ing and night, I'll resign and recom mend you for my place." "Go ahead, sonny, your friends can act as judge and umpire." J The fireman walked over to the other side of the room, took up the oak handle of a stone breaker, grasped it firmly in both hands, and with a sud den wrench, broke it squarely through the middle. Throwing the two pieces on the floor, he remarked laconically, but In a rather conceited tone, "There's another handle in the corner where I got this one, but I reckon you won't care for it." "No, perhaps this one will answer," raid the old man, taking up the two short pieces and looking them over rather curiously. With a quick Jerk he broke one of the halves and then the other, and throwing all the pieces on the floor drawled out: "Should call that more of a trick than a trial of muscle." A murmur of astonishment ran tempted to ascend only to be driven back with scorched hair and blistered hands. A cry from the crowd to the right attracted the attention of firemen and spectators, and all held their breath, as a little old man was seen, climbing, with the agility of a cat, the galvan ized waterspout on the corner of the building. Reaching the top and grasp ing the cornice, he rapidly worked himself along until he was directly over the open window. He must have had a wonderfully correct eye, for as he seemed to expect, his left foot reached just to the top of the scaling ladder below him. Placing his foot firmly upon the slight support, he re leased first one hand and then the other, sliding them along the rough brick side of the building, as if grasping an imaginary rope. Cau tiously lowering himself to a stooping position, he suddenly threw himself inside the open window, as the ladder, burned near the middle, fell to the ground with a crash. "With scarce a moment's loss of time he reappeared and piled several thick books upon the window sill. Then with the child strapped tightly upon his back, he bal anced carefully upon these, reached up and again grasped the cornice. The firemen at once realized what a des perate plan he was about to attempt and quickly placed another ladder just around the corner of the building, not yet reached by the flames. Slowly and carefully the.old man, with his pre cious burden clinging to his shoulders, worked his way along the Insecure gutter, his progress at times painfully retarded and the distance seemed great. Would he beat the flames in the race? Would he be able to hold out, encumbered as he was? The great crowd below held Its breath. Finally he clutched the projection at the cor ner and swung his feet upon the rounds of the ladder. Long tongues of fire leaped from the room he had so lately occupied and seemed to be strik ing at the rescuer and the rescued, in vicious though impotent fury, but strong and willing hands met and re lieved the old man of his burden and Few of those who have read of the accomplishments of Anthony Corn stock in his crusades against vice, which have made his name known in every section of the United : States, have any Idea of the history Of the man whose single-handed exertions have been largely responsible for the suppression of obscene literature and photographs. He has been painted as a crank of the weirdest sort a notoriety seeker, a grafter using a. cloak of morality to enrich himself, and every thing else wild and dishonest, but he is none of these and to-day his posi tion is stronger and his influence more potent than ever before. His life has been threatened scores of times by desperate criminals whom he has deprived of their unlawful gains and sent to the penitentiary. Many attempts have been made to stab, shoot and poison him; ground glass has been scattered in his food; infernal machines have been sent htm through the mails and by express; he baa been accused of unprintable de pravity; his honesty has been sneered at and his every motive Impugned, but he has gone unscathed amid physical perils and his reputation has escaped the cleverly planned pitfalls designed to ruin him in the eyes of the people and dissipate the enormous power for good which be has built up by almost a lifetime of devotion to a high duty. Guardian of Youthful Morals, w Mr. Comstock is best known for his work in the prosecution of those who make it a business to sell indecent books, pamphlets and pictures to the young, but as a matter of fact he is equally active in crushing out other forms of vice, not only in New York, but in the country at large. He travels a great deal from city to city and has been a prominent figure In reform cru sades in various sections of the coun try, and has frequently produced im portant results while others supposed to bo helping him were engaged in talking it over. In a recent interview Mr. Comstock tells for the first time the history of his life and how he abandoned a prom ising business career, in which he might have made a comfortable for tune, to pursue a vocation which has never netted him more than a living and has left him, in declining years, still with a mortgage of $10,000 on his house at Summit, N. J. He is sixty-one yeara of age and was born in Connecticut. His brother Samuel was Killed at the battle of Gettysburg and young Anthony took his place until the end of the war. Returning to his native State he en tered a grocery store in New Haven, but later went to Tennessee, where he purchased supplies for the Lookout Mountain Institute. His health failed and he went to New York, landing there with $3.45 In hia pocket. He got a job at $12 per week, bi't. resigned it to take one at $5 because he thought the new one offered better opportuni ties lor advancement. While eking out an existence on this salary he found that the young men in the stora were readers of stories of the vilest sort, and he made his first raid. He learned that a bookseller in a shop a few doors away was selling the books. Young Comstock took a policeman to the place and had the proprietor arrested and in the case involved resurrected what was a dead letter law. He won out. Progressing rapidly in the commer cial world, the young man was soon making $1,500 a year commissions as a salesman, but his abhorrence of vice was in nowise abated. He found a man named Simpson trading in ob scene literature and told a policeman his troubles. Instead of arresting the man the policeman warned him to skip out, and that was the pivot on which the life of the young reformer turned. He had the policeman dis missed for the bit of treachery and the papers began to take notice. They asked why he did not go into Nassau street and proceed against the open violators of the law there. Mr. Com stock answered the question by going. On all sides illegal publications were openly for Bale, and on March 2, 1872, wnen ne was but twenty-eight years old, he caused the arrest of seven men. The fruits of this were the sup pression of 169 different books, the raiding of three publishing houses, the confiscation of $30,000 worth of plates and engravings from one man in Brooklyn, the seizing of $16,000 worth of plates and books from a man in Manhattan, together with six tons of stereotyped plates from his printer, and the destruction of $10,000 worth of Sound books belonging to still another man. All of this was accomplished by Mr. Comstock without any assistance whatever from organization or committee. He Found a Cood An eel. He had started to buy a home and had paid $500 down on it, but giving a mortgage for the rest, he used all he could save from his salary to carry on his crusade. He was a firm believer in prayer and he believed that it was in answer to his supplications that Morris IC. Jesup, the phllantroplst, took him up at that time. Mr. Jesup gave him $500 to help him In the fight and $150 to reimburse him for his ex penditures already made. Since that time Mr. Jesup has taken a deep interest In the Comstock cru sades and has given his money free ly. A meeting was held at Mr. Jesup's house in 1873 by prominent citizens, the New York Society- for the Sup pression of Vice was formed and Mr. Comstock was engaged as its agent at a regular salary. A determined attack on the pub lishers and vendors of obscene litera ture and pictures was at once begun,, and at a fitting time, for never had there been so many and such brazen violations of the laws of the land and decency as at that time. Advertise ments were boldly printed in the pa pers and thousands of circulars were distributed by the dealers, many of the circulars being placed in the hands of children as they left school. An in effective law was passed in 1872 against the use of the mails for im moral purposes, but it accomplished nothing, and Mr. Comstock endeavored OA The Most SaKsf actory LigM. The Anela Lnmo la not tha onlv method at lizhtino voul homa bat taken all In all. it is the moil satisfactory. 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