Up A Church Steeple

Two riggers in a western city a few years ago performed a feat that for daring and steadiness of nerve equals anytliing on record. Repairs were necessary at the top of a very high church steeple. There was no way to reach the spot frorn the inside, and the riggers procured a number of light ladders and lashed theni, one above the other, to the outside of the steeple. The topmost ladder, however, was not high enough to enable them to reach the desired spot, and as the upper part of the gteeple was too small to permit the proper lashing to it of a ladder a daring expedient was resorted to. One of the men, carrying a pot of melted solder, climbed from one ladder to another nntil he had reached the last one, and then, bracing himself, he raised an extra ladder that the other rigger had brought up in his hand and leaned it against the steeple. Then the man below grasped this ladder and held it steady while the man above mounted it to the point where his work was to be done. He began the work at once, and all promised well till suddenly he jostled the solder pot, and the fiery stuff ran out and feil over the hands of the man who was holding the ladder. But the brave fellow did not move. With a presence of niind and a courage worthy of a monument he maintained a firm hold of the ladder until his companion could come down from his oub