At Evening Time,
give me one of thy dear
to hold,
Take thou my
breast;
hands
Love,
Now sing to me that song we
of old
low, about our
little
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the
room
loor and enter
two hundred
enty-five
floor. It
to make
bles Wn
various hues and
ent stages of incomplete
temporary arrangen
processes of the work were
on in the great unpartitioned
on this floor and the floor below,
Satisfied that all was well
he shut the door and was turning the
key, when his ear caught a muffled
explosion below. Celsus barked loud:
ly.
Taree jumps took the watchman to
the foet of the stairs. He unlocked
the door, sprang into the room, and
switched on the electric lights,
Already the third floor was on fire!
From a table along the eastern wall
came a cracking and snapping. As
Mclean turned his eyes that way a
rocket started with a loud whir, and
whizzed across the room, scatteriag
its flery train over tae other tables
and disappearing through the window
with a jingling crash.
In a little glass-partitioned count.
ing-room at the other end of the build.
ing was an alarm box. The watch.
man ‘might have gone down to the
next floor and rung in from there,
but that would have wasted precious
seconds; in a fireworks factory tangs
happen quickly,
Heedless of his own safety, he
ducked his head, and scurried be-
tween the tables toward the office.
Celsus bounded In advance, barking
furiously, his hair bristling. Bven
then there was no small risk, for
fireworks were beginning to explode
broa i. OCCU
took aim ab
his ro
with
nds
atre colored paper
fireworks in differ
P88
ent most of
carried
there,
#
ing of roc
crackers,
smaller Bunches
pandemonium
jeafening to
ther into a
Hino
been
have
Whang!
against the
The im
1e¢ im
tin close to
1
pact of a rocket
hia left
vibrating uader his fin.
bang! A giant
cracker exploded the
not feet away, and the
struck his calves like a blow
from a club. He trod through several
bunches, snapping round his ankles
like spiteful puppies. His feet struck
against all sorts of debris, exploded
and unexploded, swept from the ta
bles by constant explosions.
The can was falrly heavy, and when
Mcl.ean’s arms became tired bearing
its welght, he let it rest party on the
top of his head. The great trouble
with his suit of armor was that it
had no peep-holes. All the light that
reached him was a lurld duskiness
reflected from the floor. Now and
then The banged against a table,
brought up all standing, and was
obliged to change his course. But
he was making very fair progress
when an unexpected calamity befell
him.
A mine of red fire ignited under his
feet. Up puffed a mushroom-shaped
cloud of smoke, pungent, irritating,
blinding. The suffocating fumes in.
stantly filled the inverted can, rush
ing Into the watchman's eyes and
nostrils, until he could neitaer see nor
breathe,
At any cost, McLean must free his
lungs; already he was strangling,
He threw off the can, and stood un-
get tae
meta
ger-tips. Crash!
dynamite
floor
shock
on
throe
the mids bom
§
8-8-8
Bang
Boom!
Bang! bang!
WHH
RUNNING A FAST TRAIN.
Means Used in Preparing the Sched
ule of a New “Run” on Our
Railroads.
at sig
hag anything
nal towers, an
fo do wit}
sees to it that it moves on
surmountabl
time, unless me in
stacle intervenes,
in order to accustom enginemen to
of speed, test runs with
fre
degree
a train of like composition are
quently made in advance of the in
auguration of a train of exceptional
speed. These tests disclose the even
ness or unevenness of the track, the
relative effect of curves or the steadi:
ness of the trains, and the degree of
Passeager
in Har
Colin Studds, Eastern
Agent Pennsylvania Railroad,
per's Weekly.
The Man On the Steps.
They were going to the matinee,
She was up in the boudoir putting on
finishing touches and he was sitting
impatiently on the front steps.
“George,”
“Just one minute more
my gloves.”
Fifteen minutes passed.
“George,” came from above, “walt
another second. I've lost my pin”
Twenty minutes slipped by.
“George,” she continued, “don't go.
One moment. A button just jumped
off my shoe.”
Long silence.
wearily:
“Hurry a little, Bthel. If you get
down in another five minutes we can
make the evening performance. Mat.
inee's over long ago.”-Chicago News,
until I find
Then George calls
One of the features of Jeypore in
India is the wonderful Sambur salt
lake.
other
Every
Compags
Dun
belp hin
Wiser
of the
north
Dumley
compass
-
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ed to go east,
adelphia Ledger.
CAUTIOUS
“Yes,” sald Miss Passay, “Mr
has called upon me several
lately, but he always brings
young man with him.”
replied Miss Pert, “I
about him. He's terribly
cautious and just hates to be proposed
to."-Philadelphia Press
other
“My dear,”
INCIDENTAL.
“The new congressman seems to be
of fellow, but 1
put oa that forced,
when he shakes
with his constituents.”
“You mustn't mind that, It's mere
ly one of the cortortions incident to
the struggle he thinks he has to make
to hold his Job." Chicago Tribune,
wish he wouldn't
A REAL OLD ACTOR.
Jenks-—Your father was an actor,
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Bragg-Cortainly;
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Jenks<-Funny [| never heard of him.
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Bragg--8ure! He originated
sart.~<Philadelphia Press.
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