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While fond lips will bless For their happiness The sound of October's name. Then she'll teuch the tree tops softly, And a carpet all fresh and sweet. In Colors as bright As the rainbow's light Will fall at her fairy feet; Sometimes the woos the summer By the light of her magic smile: Sometimes she calls At the frost king's balls, And bids him reign awhile. Then when the hills are woven With many a tainted strand, When a veil of romance (Like the bright cloud's dance) Is wrapped over sea and land, Like a dream thai is wild with splendor, Like the sun at the cloee of day, Like the visions that rest lu a maiden's breast, October will float away. TIIC FLOOD or 1S32. A Xlglitw Adventure on the Ohi River. "The river riees wonderfully fast, wife," said Jack Martin, as he wiped his hands on the roller-towel behind the door, before sitting down to supper. It'salmoat up to the top of the bank ; never was known to be so high ;' and Wilson really appeared scared about it. "Do you think there is nny danger?" asked Mrs. Martin, as she poured out the tea. "No ; we are not going to be carried away because it is a few feet above high water mark. It will go down aa it came up when it is ready. Come in." ' This was said in answer to a knock at the door, and was followed by the appear ance of a boy about thirteen years of age. "Mother is sick, Mrs. Martin,'' be Baid, approaching the table, "and sent me to ask you to come over. Granny Hays is down wilh the rheuruatiz, and she hain't got no one with her.' "1 expected it," said Mrs. Martin. "What Shall I do V "Go, of course," said her husband. "You can't do anything else." "iSbe is very bad,'' said the boy, "and I am to go arouud and fetch the doctor." ''Weil, draw up and get some supper, Joe," was Jack's answer, "then I will put Dolly in the wagon, and will g tne upper road and take the doctor fn." . "ltut the children. fner?" "Now don't Oegin to worry; Mollys b'ally cba take care of ihe baby, and I will not be gone more than an hour or so. You can get along, can't you, Sally T" "I guess so," was the smiling reply of a. bright-eyed girl of Home thirteen years, who sat bet-ide him. "The creek is running like a mill race, and trees looked standing in it when I came over , the hill, I don't believe we could get along that road." "The water is backing up, then," said Jack ; but it is too cold to rise much fur ther."' "The water is spreading all over," said Joe. Mrs Martin made a hurried meal, and was ready by the -lime her husband had the wagon at the. door .With charges to Sally concerning the baby, she stepped in, while Jack locked the Louse door, and put the key, in his pocket, telling the chil dren to go to bed aa soon aa they had set things to rights, but to be sure and have a good fire, and keep a light burnibg, ofl he would not be gone long. - - Jack Martin and bis young wife had left New England when they were first married.'and settled upon the Ohio river omft distance above Cincinnati Here Jack had built a small frame bouse, and begun to cultivate his land, and here his five children were born, two of whom had died Sally and Will and the baby being all that were left. Jack was a happy, light-hearted, industrious man, who work ed his farm and "took things easy." His land was productive, bis crops bad sold well, he had built a fine barn, and had good out-houses, but his own house was t,a .fiuhhiest Dart of the premises. It was a frame of but one room, with a loft above, which bad been put tip for present wants when he first settled there, but it was plastered snug and tight. Every year Jack had thought he would add to it, and when his wife represented that it was etting very old, and was really too' soiaU for her growing family, he would put her off with a promise of building next spring, and a complement to her bouse keeping, After her parents left, Sally proceeded to Wash up the tea things. The baby, a child some ten months old, was asleep. Turning up the end of a brown table-cloth, Will got out his slate and arithmetic and began to cipher, while : Sally went back and forth from the cupboard to the table, singing und putting the things away. '. Will was slow at figures ; he put down and rubbed out; and bothered and scratch cd his head ; and finally appealed to Sally wilh "Just show me this part." Thus an hour passed. The baby awoke, and was fed and played with, and the two getting sleepy they prepared for bed, Usually they slept in the loft, unless the weather was very cold, but this time they had been told to get in below with ihe baby. ' liefore undressing they rolled a large log on the fire, and put a candle in the lantern, as they had been taught to do for safety. ' , Tired of their walk of two miles from school in the wind, they were soon asleep. Suddenly Sally wan awakened by she knew not what, and was turning to go to sleep again, when there was a groaning, creaking noise, and she thought she heard the house move. Thoroughly aroused, she sat up in bed. The lantern was dark, and from the hearth, where she had left a great fire, came a hissing sound, and there was only the glare of a dull burning log. She thought some one was putting out the fire, and called, "Father! Father!" There was no answer, but the sound continued. Without waking William, she sprung out upon the floor and raD to wards the fireplace. As she reached it her feet splashed In the water which was running along the fljor. Quick as light the thought came, "the river 19 up 1" She groped for a candlestick, and found oue with a email piece of candle remaining in it. Taking one of the long sulphur matches used in those days she touched it to a coal and obtained a light. A quick glance around told her at once what was the matter. The hearth, laid with heavy stone, had sunk several inches below the floor of the room, up through the crevices ol this came the water, which had almost put out the fire, leaving only the logs burning. The door was locked, but raising the window curtain, she gazed out. The house wad surrounded by water ; the waves were washing against it and over the doorstep. As far as her eye could reach all roundabout was water, t-nly water, with trees standing in il. . The girl had been brought up to depend cn herself, and she had both resolution and courage. JJuhning to the bed she shook Will 'Get ap. Will, get up! The river fs all around the house." . The boy sat up, rubbed his eyes stupidly, then sank back again. "Get up, Will, do get up ! don't you hear 1 The river 19 com ing in the house." She shook him again. "Dress quickly,and don't wake the baby." She already had her own shoep on, ar-' i was fastening up her dress. There was the same creaking noise, and the bouse shook. Will comprehended at l-at, and while pulling on his clothe rau to the window. ' ' ... c "What are we - do ? ' he asked in at fright. "Ifatber was only here 1" - W must go up to the loft, and wait oiiiil father comes," she answered. ' Taking-the baby in her arm?, she climbed tho Stairway; and laid it on her own bed, wrapping it up warmly. When she came down again, 'Will, who had been looking out, stood with tears running down his face. j "Where is father ? Oh, Sallys where is father? I arrl so afraid he has been drowned ; he has not come home,". . She hujiged the tender-hearted boy close. "No, Will, no ; father is safe ; he will only be troubled about us." She shud dered herself as she reassured him. He will get a boat and come." Finding the water was covering the floor, they. carried to the loft all the arti cles they could move, not forgetting some tread and a crock of -milk for the baby. They then took refuge there themselves. While they were thus engaged, they fre quently heard the house quiver. ' It was cold. They had a light, but no fire. So, wrapped Jn comforters, they held each other close, not daring to. go to bed. They crouched near - one of. the windows, of which there were two in the lofl, one looking back on the hills, the other in front ton the river. Their father did not come. It was not a dark night, and they could see that the water had spread over the meadows almost to the hills. The barns and all the outhouses stood surrounded. They could hear the geese gabble in alarrri, and the ducks quack, for they had been diiven from their shelter. . It was a strange sight, and one well calculated to fill ,them with fears. , They sooke little as they sat hugged together, except to say, "What is that?" as the creaking noise ihey had heard grew loud er. Will, who had always been delicate, was a dependent loving, ; sympathizing boy, whose bravery was shown in bear-' inr he was, uncomplaining, uui sympa thetic. Sally, who had often kept , the house for weeks together when ber moth er was ill, and cooked her father's meals, and even done the washing, was sturdy and a little rough to others, but to Will she was,alway tender. Now her heart ached for the lad she held in her arms. ": The little wooden clock on the mantle sbclf struck two, and a moment after there was a great noise, as of something tear ing away a jarring and a jerking j ihe house swayed to and fro and, as if struck by something, went down one side and up the other. With a smothered excla mation, the children covered up their heads and clung closer to one anolher. A violent motion was followed by a ca'm. They looked up. There was a tearing ami a pushing along the sides of the house, a violent thump, the window glass rattled as it broke and fell, and the opening was darkened by branches of trees. A mo ment more and all was quiet again. They were still. lVeaently, Sally stood up and said : "We are moving, Will ; the house is moving!" She ran to the front window and looked out. , They were afloat on the broad Ohio ! Alone, with out help, in this old house, they were moving down the surging stream! With a wild scream Sally sprang across the floor and looked out at Ihe back win dow. She saw the barn, and the wood house, and the tops of the fences, With chickens roosting on Ihem. Great tree9 which had been uprooted, and in whose branches logs and other debris had caught were swaying where the house had stood, apparently pinned by something remain ing theie. Kven as she gazed, the dis tance between tlu m and these familiar oljects increased and she knew ihey were on the broad, swift current of the river, helpless. - The boy saw the terror in ber face, and, clinging close to ber, he looked up, and said, 6oftIy, as a big tear welled from her lid, and fell upon his upturned cheek, "Don't cry, Sally ; God will help us.'-' The girl, always more given to depend on herself than to seek higher aid, clasped him, and relieved herself by a loud burst of sobbing. Awakened by the noise, Ihe baby cried, and bad to be taken up and fed ; this took the attention of the children for some mo ments from themselves and their situation, which they could fully realize. The raft of trees and driftwood coming against the old house, already swaying in the water, had forced it from its foundations and swept it out into the open river, bearing it past the great trees on the bank, ihe boughs of which had broken the windows, and torn off some of the weather-boarding from the aide. Somewhat herself again, S:tlly bid the baby down, and drawing Will with her, crept to the window. Crouching, they looked out- Just then the piece ot candle flared up, sank again in the socket, flick ering and went out. "It will soon be morning," the boy said, in answer to Sal ly's clasp, as they were left in darkness 'Then the people will see u?, and come and take us away," was her reply. The clock had" struck four. Kneeling there, they passed villages fd high bluffs, and saw distant tons, all of which seemed pwomerged, for there were lights r.jeoning from upper story windows in ihe houses and moving about as though on Ihe water. Dark objects went swift ly by them, and every Utile while the house would dip and rock, as a I03 or tree or other weighty object struck it. Heavy as their heart? Were, they spoke to each other of the jreat flood and liken eti themselves to Noho in the Ark. They were in the current and Went swiftly on. Five o'clock struck, then six ; ihey be an to see objects distinctly in the dawn ing light. "See! exclaimed Will, "there is some thing on that bale of hay, and there is a coop full of chickens, too, !'' kLook at that settee and those chairs ! and there is a dog bouse turned upside down, and the poor dog is clinging to the outside with his paws ; he is chained to it." Sally pointed towards the spot. Hay, straw, articles of furniture, bales of cotton, wood and timber of all kinds, strewed the face of the river. "Oh !" The house careened as though going over, as some large object struck against it, and the children were thrown back upon the floor. "..It righted again, and tremblingly they continued to. watch the waters, therr thoughts diverted from themselves by what they saw. There was a strange noi3e at the back window, a scratching and clawing and thumping. They drew" neat to see what it was, afi-1 found that the cat, which had probably been on the , shed that plank by plank was falling away from the house, had sought the refuge of the window-sill without where she was disturbed by the old ram, also on the shed, and making frantic efforts to reach the same position with puss, as he feli his, unsafe foothold quiver beneath him. -As be bounded up or climbed against trie house, striving to make away with his horns, the cat would draw back and hiss and spit at him. Amused despite themselves,; the chitdren opened the window and the' cat bounded in while the old ram was left to bis fate. .. With the light, all Sally's resolution and energy came back to her ' They passed towns and villages. She knew they must be nearing Cincinnati, of which she had heard ; and there she had a vague idea, they would be rescued. Taking the sheets otf the bed, she fast ened Ihem to a couple of Blats from tho bedstead; and put them oat of the window,- as she had often seen persona do on the river bank, when they wished to at tract the attention, and get a steamboat to stop. After several attempts she suc ceeded in nailing the slat to the the window-sill- - Stationing Will at one window, she placed herself at the other, her heart pal pitating with expectation. The sun had now been up some time, and they began to realize the danger, and to shudder at every creak of the timbers of ihe house. They passed a solitary dwelling half immersed, then several then a town with steamboats at the lauding, skiffs and dug outs paddling through the streets. They were sure that the men in Ihem saw the house. they pointed to it, and were talk ing of it, but still no help. On they went. The wafers were more turbulent, the surface of the stream more studded with floating articles. Now it spread out so wide it seemed boundless, and again it would contract, and on the high grounds would be dwellings not yet reached by ihe flood. An hour passed. Sally was almost frantic, and began to despair. Several times she had seen people making jignalj lo them, but none came to help. The baby fretted and . cried, and Will took ii up and soothed and gave it milk. "Eat a bit, Will, eat a bit," said Sally, who was herself almost exhausted through want of sleep and excitement. The lad only shook his head and looked up. There was an expression on his face beautiful to 6ee. "We are coming to a town. This must be Cincinnati. See the houses J" S;illy leaned out of the window and wildly waved something she had snatched up, raising her voice at the same time and shrieking for aid "Put down the baby. Will, and come and wave nnd holler," she said, looking in at him, and Will obeyed. "They see us! Why don't they help us?" she exclaimed in wild excitement. "It is Cincinnati ! Wh7 don't they come? See the boats !" She came near falling out of the window. They passed the su burbs ; people 5aw, and shouted to them, but seemed to have no power to reach them. They were coming in front of the city, the lower part of which with Cov ington and Newport lay in ihe water. The steamboats appeared to be away up in the town, and many skiffs and other little crafts were plying about Ihe river. Now they were indeed seen, and their shouts were answered, but the skiffs could not get near them. The current of the river was strong, and there were too many large objects on its surface. Encouraged by a knowledge that they were seen, the children increased their exertions. Sally brought the baby from the bed and held it up. Present' H large boat, which was manned n,en were at Work trjirg to futve some of the lumber of a saw mill, shot out and came towards them. Slow ly and steadily it moved in and oat, avoiding or pushing oil the drift-wood and other articles floating by. People who had been obliged to retreat to the second story of their dwel'iugs put their heads out of the window to see the BtranEe shiht a hctuse afloat and waved and shouted and threw up their handa when they saw it had inmates, and these inmates were children. Meantime the house was floating on and the boat was nearing it. A few lengths, and it would be at its side. Just then a huge saw-log, which had been ling like a great whale on the surface of the water, was struck by scrfjething, and changing its course dashed into the side of the dwelling. A Startled shriek was given by the lookers on, as, thrown : by the Concussion, the children disappeared, and the waters dashed over Ihe parted limbers. While the frame turned and whirled In the eddy, the log moved on. Taking ad vantage of the clearer space, the boat gained by a few clever strokes, the side of the ruin ; then, while one of the crew suc ceeded in m.ikirig it fast, another climbed to the window, where tho children had again appeared, and lifted them out. A moment more and the house fell over on its siae. "I .thought God would take care of us," whispered Will to Sally, as they were safely Set a.hore. Jack Martin, who had reached the vi cinity of his home to find it gone, was soon informed of the safety of his chil dren? and ere long the family were again together. Need we say it was a joyful meeting. A Distressing Conundrum A New Orleans paper tells of an ambitious young debater in a village society who propound ed this abstruse conundrum i .. "Kff'r man plants a watermiliion . seed next to his feuee ; and this 'ere watermil iion seed sprouts up intn a watermiliion vine ; ; and that 'ere watermiliion vine grows and meanders through that ar fence into another man's lof adjacient that ,'ere watemillion vine that sprouted from that watermiliion seed nnd meandered thro' that 'ar fence into this 'ere other man's lot adjacient ; tharin consolidates and ho mologates into a watermiliion, the ques tion, feller citizens and ladies, is: To which of these 'ere men did . that 'ar wa termiliion, so homologated and promulgat ed belong ? To the man who planted that 'ur waterntillion seed that meandered thro' that 'ar fence into this ere man's lot adjacient and thar consolidated into a watermiliion ; or to the man who owned this 'ere lot adjacient, whar was so pro mulgated the watermiliion that so exerg gitated from that ar watermiliion vine that meandered thro this 'ere fence and 80 sprouted from that ar watermiliion seed that that 'ere man there planted ?" THE tl.ICAGO FIRE. SO PARALLEL IN SKDKRN HISTOEV THE 6 HEAT FIRES OF THE PAST. Among the great conflagrations of the ptst that of London in September, 1CCG, will always staud pre-fniinent for its terri ble destructiveness. It followed upon tho great plague, w hich had carried off one-third of the population in the previous year, and swept over uearly five-sixths of the spaed included within the city walls at that date It laMed four days, and the ruins covered 436 acres. It destroyed eighty-nine churches' (iucludiug iSt. Paul'.), the Iioj al exchange, the custotn-hotiEe. Gutdhall, Zion college, ar.d many other public buildings, besides 3,200 private houses; Four hundred streets wera entiiely laid waste, and abcut 200,000 of thd inhabitants of the city were obliged to en- camp for some time in the open fields of Is lington ami llighgate. The most disastrous fire in Loudon since that date occurred on the 25'h of March, 1784, when 200 houses in the Cornhill ward were destroyed. Many destiuctive fires have occurred in the British metropolis at later dates; the most receoi vroitby of tpecial note being the burning of the cotton aud other wharves of Tooley street in June and July, 1861. The fire continued ragiug with greatei or less fury fof nearly a month. Several persons were killed, and property was dested to the value of 2.000.000. On the olh rf May, 1842, a fiie broke ont in the city of Hamburg. Germany, which raged with great fury for four days, fhstioy iug about one-third tf the city. S.xty-ona streets, obtaining 1,747 houses, were utter- ly laid wa-te, and thousands of pecple were rendered homeless. There were few poblic buildings of ralue destroyed, and that por tion T the city was quickly it built in a much mure substantial manner than before. Iu this country great fires, erpecially be- fore the day of improved fire tnginis hate been comparatively frequent, and New York has had her full share. In September, 1776 soon after the city came into the hands cf the British, 600 houses were destroyed, form ing at that time a large part f the town The buildings were rather huddled together at the lower end of the island, aud wera mostly of wood, aud the distiict neft of Broadway and below Cortlandt street w-33 swept bare. New York was visited by an-, other great conflagration, the greatest in its history, on the lCth vt December, 1S35. S x hundred warehouses, and property to the extent of over twenty millions cf dollars were Consumed. The oldest inhabitants still remember the horrors of that terrible disaster. On the sixth cf September, I83'j, the city had another severe visitation, when forty-six buildings and property valued at $10,000,000 were destroyed. The nelt con liagratiou of large extent in that city" took place on the 19;h of July. 1S45. when 802 st . res and dnellics in the lower part of the erty were destroyed, 'ifiese, however, were of comparatively inferior value, the whole loss amounting to J6.C0O.O00. Ftur live were lost on this occasion. Since that time, owing to the increased efficiency of the means employed to prevent aud extinguish fires, they have generally been confined to a sing'e bniiding or a small group. In the same year of the last great fire in New York, 1815, Quebec suffered terribiy from the same dtstroying element. On the ! 2Sth of May a fire broke out in the Fau bourg St. Ilocb, which destroyed 1.500 bcilu ings before it couid I e quelled. Several livtS were also lost. Eiactly one month later 1,300 buildings were burned, snd by these' two cocfl.igrations nearly two-thirds of tho ,-it v was lair in rnins. The Decuniarv lot-S has been stated at 53,000.000. Iu the same year, on the 12th of Juue. nearly the whole town of St. Johns. Newfoundland, was de stroyed, and 6,000 people were rendered ! homeless. Albany suffered from a great conflagration on the Pih of September. 184S. Six hundred buildings, besides steamboats, piers and other property, valued altogether at 3,000.000, were burued. Twenty-four acrts land with in the city limits were covered with rnins. St. L mis had a great fire iu May, i84"9. when fifteen blocks of bouses and twenty three steamboats were consumed, causing a less cf over $1 0C0.00O. . Philadelphia has been fortunate in having few great fires, but one occurred in that city on the 9th of Jnly. 18G0, wh'ch destroyed 350 buildings. These were of inferior value, and the whole lo?s was but $1,500,000. though twenty five persons were killed, nine drowned and 120 iujured. A large portion of San Francisco was de- stroyed in 1851. On the 3d of May a fira broke out which consumed nearly 2,500 buildings, eausing a loss of $3,500,000 aod feveral lives. A little over a month later, on Ihe 22d of June. 500 more buildings were burned, valued at $30,000 000 or more. Twelve acres of land in Syracuse were bdmed over on the 8th of November. 1S55. About 100 buildings were destroyed, and the loss of property amounted to $1,000,000. The scene most naturally recalled by this fearful disaster in Chicago is the terrible cel ebration of the f-'Unh of July fw Port'aud, Me., in 18C6. The leading facts ol the great event arc still fresh in the public mind. The fire, beginning in a boot shop on High street swept north, and destroyed in Its course nearly one half of the City... The pecuniary, lots was about $15,000,000. and one-fourth of the population were rendered houseless. It seems probable irom tne reports tnua far received that the terrible fire in Chicago has n parallel in modern history, unless iu tha conflagrations kindled by war. Even the great fire of London, though relatively more destructive, did not equal it in abso lute extent. The London of that day was little more than twothirds the size of the Chicago today, having less than 250,000 in habitants; and if, as reported, two-thirds of Chicago is in rnins. the desolated territory is r U o Cma civf no TrtnrTAn said'to have beea laid waste in 166G. . ; .. A 'strong-minded' thus relieves her self: Mirry! marry! mrry! That's man's eternal cry. Marry and settle down. Settle down into a house two-story back perhaps settle down into a kitchen, a cook stove, a wash tub. a cradle! and so keep set tling into a weary, worn, faded woman on whom the male ImportuneV. after five or ten years of his exclusive companionship, may look and congratulate ninv-e'i i u uj.iuj ! complished a succescful ruin I"
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