Importance of Discipline.
TWENTY-FOUR hundred school children were saved out of a position of no little danger on April 3d, by discipline and courage, when Grammar School No. 17, in Forty-seventh street, New York, being on fire, the whole of the children were quietly marched out of the burning building without panic or disorder. One of the teachers first noticed a filmy line of smoke curling around the slate of a six-years-old child, and small forks of flame shooting up from beneath the children's seats. The children, frightened, rose up; the teacher quickly ordered them to sit down, and down they sat. The principal was quietly sent for, who said, "Children, I want you to follow me without any disorder," which they did, and in a few minutes afterwards a stream of fire shot out in the rooms just vacated. On the third floor was the grammar school, the occupants of which were in still greater danger. Before all could leave, the smoke had filled the room, and the fire was on the stairways that were built as fire escapes. One by one the girls were passed down, those of Jewish birth showing especial coolness under such trying circumstances. There were two lame girls in the school, and as their crutches brought them to the head of the stairway some of their companions fell back and others twined their arms tenderly around them, and so conveyed them safely into the street. The courage of teachers and children was alike remarkable; one little fellow of ten, sent from one classroom to another to fetch a slate, on coming back said to his teacher, "Teacher, there's a fire in the school, but don't say anything about it." Such is the value of persistent training in habits of discipline and order.