Evenfall. Come, heap the logs, blaze up higher, And make good cheer ing fire— but the bluebird's 1 think I heard the laughing of the boboliak! Was that the ash upon a coal took shape, Or is 't the grape? Within my gleam A cloud of wizard spr seem, all the dream! and send the about the roar- Nay, here! Or, stay, blue bloom of a pulpy chimney-corner's happy ites the seasons And year a many-colored mistake, or was 't but eve Can I yester firefly-dance weave? Was it this morn tha of flame stooped, deifle, name? no music or of flute or bird the child's volce afternoon I heard! Through what me fare, Youmnaat ovely [ saw the the fairies t from his sphere Love uttering Surely Like this ridians of light vou Oh, and through what ¥ ear Life, stress you My wonder ing soul! to this air! ~Harrle Century. Prescott Spofford in 250525052: FSR 525R52 52 SR545ea057y SAVED BY Hs Doe. 25 "25Esdsese at = Le ast one verand: nestied tain, continued old gent] his lips following remarl} seen ig who h had.” “1 don’t sald L and I've seen very little friends as creation will stick b; “I know one 1 speak A8 & man cf “How was response } “4 Years that slides < Mountains, by which the ily were destroyed which it happened I left which was down spot where | settlements ARO, 0 vegan year, you know, that great my home, yonder, in the exact live to get to at Conway. In those there was nearer than at which we could get the things we neéded in the “l was a young a wife and two lived in a mile from my brute things cow and my dog, dom when [ went lowed Nero to go wild beasts were pretty plenty in those days, and I wanted him to stay and keep them away from the cabin. I was afraid they might venture too close sometime, and carry away my children, who might be playing about the door But 1 had little fears of this so long as Nero guard them. “When I set out that morning he wanted to follow me badly, and | had to speak twice to him before he would remain behind. Sitting on the doorstep, he watched me until I en- tered the woods and was concealed from his sight. Much as he wanted to go, 1 had no fears of niu follow. ing. He knew too much for that, He always seemed to understand almost as well as a human being. “l went on foot, and all down to Conway 1 could not help looking at the sky It seemed an though I had never seen it threaten rain so before. The clouds came so low that they covered the mountain tops, and appeared ready to sink down into the very valley itself. “1 got to Conway a little before noon, and hurried to get through with my business as soon as I could. I knew that a fearful storm was close at hand and unless 1 hurried up I should catch a wetting. Before I wag through the rain came down in tor rents. The people at the store tried to prevent me from going home, but it was no use. Somehow of other I never felt so worried in my life. My mind was made up that I would go home to Mary and the children If it was possible for me to get there, “l never saw It rain no before or since as it did that afternoon. In » now, the no store house, man then, and had small children gtout cabin, about father's, that I owned Nero It was that sel away with me. the way stead of coming down in drops, It seemed to pour by the bucketful, The clouds, which had been low and dense all the forenoon, now sank lower, and as I went onward it seemed that I would soon get to a place where k could touch them with my hand. “The streams [I crossed seemed to rise even as I looked upon them, and before I was half way home, some of the smaller bridges were swept away, and I formed some difficulty in getting the raging torrents I knew the branch stream which crossed half a mile from my house must be rising fast, and 1 was fearful that the bridge across it would be swept away I could safely to the other side If it was, I knew that it would be impos sible for me to reach home, for forda- ing would be out of the question “l made the time I could, and nightfall I came in sight anch It was bankful like a across that the road about hefore get hest before ‘unning mill race. } ft + BY ’ 1 and other driftwood were borne ¢ swiftly and was trem Drowning traws ing low ehended my si e from my poc it hit the end bound Nero taking the mouth, the timber In his to me spot, and the oad of gwam boldly out “It was hardly a the swift current plank within my reach the end of the plank, and by effort upon the timber which [ stood upon the bank. instant to spare. landed over the narrow Nero at my heels. “I was not a moment too soon, My feet had hardly touched the land be- fore the flood carried everything away. Nero had saved my life by a hair's breadth. “I reached my home in safety. My wife had not heard me call, but the dog bad demanded to be let out into the storm, and she had opened the door for him. Had his quick ear not caoght his master's voice then, he would never have heard it again New York Weekly. ANIMAL DOUBLES OF HUMANS, brought the a great raised It There not was an bridge, with Everybody Said to Resemble Creature of the Lower Life. “All of us have our counterparts in the animal world,” began the man, “Some animal we resemble in man: ners and looks. Of course the coun- terpart of many is the ape, the mon key, the baboon. That is only in the order of things; but a lot of people look like birds and animals you see about the house. | have seen women who looked like wrens and behaved like them, little brown, sputtering, chattering, fussy things. And there are others who look like fish, Hav. en't you seen old mald parrots? I knew an old mald once who looked so much like her parrot you couldn't tell them apart, except that one sat on a perch. “Go down to little Syria If you want to see people who look like dragons, The heads, 1 mean, There is one wo head is such a per of the dragon head, bulg flat fore every moment wings and fly.’ ish you'd hush,” begged the wo- “You have spolled the loo] of friend I have for me. There's Smith. Since you called him the mouse, it is all I ean do to keep from gathering up skirts, screaming and jumping on a chair whenever he comes around. His ears, the shape of his face, I never saw anybody look more like but 1 have thought of it if you hadn't it. And t of a pig. 1 when | grunt I used to Now I can't gee anyt but the stupid look of animal. Tellme. Ycu have 8 Ble whose counterpart jawed, expect to develop iridescent “1 wi man. every man there fect square head, ing eyes, vi her my should never sald face Now him to bright, face a mouse, ston witha the like him 1 expect here's Carl used to him think he was hing in his that terrible seen Katie i nt look at look like? STATIONERY CLOUDS. Curious Formations on the Windward Sides of Mountain Crests. ahead the phenon writes t Review Weath that the Waynesville, N States to say three specimens wh two rang that facing called aver He adds mountains might be That Is there ia blowing up sides forms fog sheets on ward slopes, when no fog is to be seen in any other direction. iamic ® tO say, fog is after rains, or dampness, the mountain wind much thease when wind the A Man of Many Friends. characteristic of the late Sir Henry Irving to make friends of Americans whom he met in London, and to show his appreciation of the esteem and admiration in which he was held here. But it would have been asking too much to expect him to be familiar with each person's claim to his recognition. A contribu- tor to the New York Sun says that it was often a case of “going it blind” on the part of the actor, A certain New Yorker arriving in London found an invitation from Sir Henry to one of the famous suppers in the Beeksteak Room of the Lyceum Theatre. He accepted the invitation with delight, had as good a time as the guests &t these gatherings in- variably did, and ultimately became a close friend of the actor, But neither at that first supper nor at any time later did his host gay a word to explain how he hap pened to invite a man he had never met before, S80 at last his Ameri. can friend decided to question him on the subject. “Tell me, Irving,” he sald, “how did you happen to ask me to take supper with you ten years ago in London I've often wondered why you did it.” “80 have 1” answered the acter, Mandly, “and to save my life I was never able to recall what the reason was. Put I'm sure it was a good ona’™<Youth's Companion. It was HIE KEYST ONE STATE The Latest Pennsylvania News Told in Order. Rey a ha Henry A f pastor tist ( “h wirch resignation to Parkerford Pa Market have Cost other th M« der and vic inty emp! wing fixed for a « present their dating from © sey! : i Have them that they desire mierence when request for April 1 they the Oliver Hay, aged 32, fell seventy feet at Boswell, Somerset Co Hay was ¢ Coal Com- the tipple He landed oe yunly. Merchants’ and fell from into a bin of slack coal along side of the pile, which was cov- ered by a foot of snow, The snow and coal served as a sort of a cushion and saved his life. The engine on the morning passenger train from Philadelphia on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad left the rails near Union City. The train was nine hours late on account of another wreck and moving rapidly. Fortunasely the train was stop- d before it was derailed. No one was urt. the appointment of E. C. Dewey, of Clearfield, to be auditing clerk of the department, a position which the Auditor General has created. Mr. Dewey is at present assistant cashier of the State Treasury and will enter upon the duties of his new position on April 1. Despairing over his fancee’s refusal to marry him, Irvin Francis Miller, aged 20 years, ‘of Hamburg, committed suicide by shooting himself on South Fourth Street. Miller was to have been married 0 Miss Anna Gaenzel, Saturday, but she declared the wedding off. Brooding over his disappointment, Miller borrowed a revolver from a friend and put a bullet in his right temple. Death followed two homers later. Miller was married ten years ago and had been divorced from his wife. Their child, § vears of ace. remadond with the mother, Added Good enough to inches. seme and shutter Full description Rochester, N. 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