Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1910 — A Brave Man. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Man.

Former Governor William Sprague, of Rhode Island, celebrated recently hie 79th birthday. He ls the only surviving war Governor. A reporter questioned Governor Sprague one day at Narraganset about bravery. “There Is a finer bravery shown ln civil than ln military life,” the veteran statesman said. “I remember one of our Providence Are chiefs. A green fireman resigned from the Providence service because his chief, he said, was cruel and Inhuman. * ’How cruel end Inhuman?* they asked him. " ’Why,' the fireman whined, ‘at last week's tenement fire he ordered me to carry a section of hoes right In between two walls that were Just on the point of tumbling’ , “ ‘And what did you dor "*I refused, of course. 1 told the chief it wee as much ae a mgn’s life wga worth to go in there, and I wouldn’t do it’ . ’’ ‘Well, what did the chtef do thenT “‘Ha. ha. ha! The crazy fool carried the hoee ln himself.'"