People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — AS BY A MIRACLE. [ARTICLE]

AS BY A MIRACLE.

Showing How Presence of Mind Can Secure Absence of Bodies. The opera house was crowded. The curtain had gone down hastily in the middle of the second act of the musical extravaganza, and the audience, after a slight buzz of surprise and impatience, sat waiting for it to rise again. Something had happened. A fire had broken out in the prop erty room. With the feeble means at their command tho stage attendants tried in vain to extinguish it. The flames licked up the combustible materials strewn carelessly about and began to eat their way upward. Dense volumes of smoke obstructed the efforts of the hastily-improvised fire brigade, and rose aloft through the unprotected regions back of the stage. The terrible truth could be kept from the audience only a few moments longer. Ihe fire was beyond control. Something must be done. Outwardly calm, but with a face whose ghastly paleness mocked the mechanical smile it wore, the leading tenor stepped in front of the curtain. There are times when the soul ol man, moved by an intuition whose lightning flash infinitely transcends the swiftest processes of thought, leaps instantly and unerringly to the solution of some gigantic problem before whose sudden awful and inevitable front the plodding faculties of reason stand appalled and helpless. Tn the life of this man the supreme moment had come. I he problem confronted him, and he was equal to it. The building must be emptied with all speed, but- without the dreadful knowledge that life and death were involved. There must be no maddened rush of frenzied humanity, blocking the doors and barring its own way of escape. There was only one thing to be done. Assuming the easy attitude of a favorite singer in the act of responding to a second encore, the leading tenor unfolded a piece of sheet music and spoke in a low tone to the leader of the orchestra: Prof. Gibbons,” he said, “oblige me by playing ‘Two Little Girls in Blue?” —Chicago Tribune.

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