NIGHTFALL. Bwlftly the shadows of the night ft ron ml us fall, | Come., let us kneel before our U::, o Father, lead our way, I And whd •we linger in this alien land, 1 In mercy hear us while to thee we pray, ! Si ill guard and guide us by thy loving hand. - K. M. Offord in The Observer. TIIHOICiI THE Fill! N ACE. "Julie, the fires are coming nearer; I wish you wouM dismiss school, and go to town with me—l don't like to leave you : here." t "I 611011111 he a weak minded girl, in deed, to shut up the school house and send the children home for a little smoke. I am in 110 more danger than the others.'' Ii "But the others are not so dear to me." "You are selfish, and—very presum ing."' t "Oh, very well. Then I may as well say good-by." • There was 110 answer, and for some moments the two silently stood in the hazy September sunlight, with the dull mists and a strange quiet all about them. The young man, dark eyed, handsome and strong, held his horse's bridle in bis hand, ready to leap into the saddle, yet with an unsatisfied, troubled air, hesitating to do so; while the young girl, with her dimpled hands in her dainty apron pockets, looked provokingly indifferent and pretty. 011 the knoll behind them stood a low, log school house—twenty years ago log houses were 110 novelty in northwestern Ohio—and back of flint "the erik," which was a creek only in wet seasons, and at others, as now, hut a succession of grassgrown "swales," sleeping in the dry heat, with a "sandy desert" appear ance. On three sides the low oak woods, with their dead looking branches and curled up leaves, came down to the very school yard, and a few straggling trees overshadowed the humble seminary of learning itself. The horizon was a woody circle, be yond which rolled up dark, ominous looking clouds—great purplish shadows that filled the heavens, made the air thick and oppressive, and disguised the sun itself as a sullen, overgrown moon. It was still early, hut there was 110 dewy freshness or hreezv coolness, noth ing bright and invigorating, such as a well disposed morn it. g is expected to bring: the red glows that had shown out against a starless sky all night had sim ply paled as the gray light crept 011 and turned into black, heaving piles as the dawn whitened the skies. One or two farmhouses, with their small "clearings" attached, a winding road with bushes on either side drooping over it, and a creeping team in the dis tance, were the only signs of civilization discernible in the monotonous wilder ness. destined to 1)0 more dreary before the day was over. "Hare you nothing more to soy to me, Julie?" "I do not think of anything at pres ent." the little teacher said, wi.b aggra vating COOItIPSS. "Well—you will not-go to the party to-night'?" "1 think I shall. If you cannot trust me by myself at an ordinary neighbor hood gathering, I cannot be worth any anxiety of uiind cn yotir part." "It is not that, dear. But L know those fellows from town too well. They intend to come out for the sole purpose of seeing the 'pretty little schooltna'am' and ridiculing the natives.' us they say. You are naturally so unsuspecting, so sweet and kind in your disposition they will misunderstand and lake advantage of what they will term 'your simplicity.' If I come, knowing I had not intended it. they will believe I could not trust you. I cannot endure that they should even know you, to laugh and chatter about you for weeks afterward. To please me, dear Julie, remain away and disappoint them." "Yes, and create more wonderment and expostulations than it is all worth. I have promised my simple hearted friends and pupils to he present, and shall go, and I don't care for your town compan ions, or—for you either." "You do not mean that, surely. Come, Julia, I have ridden five miles this morn ing, left the store to the mercies of a green clerk, to see you, and to speak one word of warning. Give me a kind word before I go, and the smile I have dreamed of for days, to cheer and reassure me." But Harry Seidell bent in vain to catch a glance from the deep blue eyes, veiled so obstinately by their long black lashes. "I can stay 110 longer. Julia, and your scholars are coming through the woods. You are not treating me fairly, and will see it yourself presently." He pressed her passive hand, and vaulted into the saddle. "Good-by. If the fires come closely, dismiss school and go home. The Cleaver place is safe, I think, as there are fields of plowed ground round it. Good-by, dear." "Good-by, Harry," she said, a little more softly; but his restless horse was claiming his attention, and soon he was speeding down the road like the wind. Julia Atherton looked after him a mo ment with a moisture gathering in her lustrous eyes. The shouts of the chil dren rang out nearer, and glimmers of pink calico and blue gingham peeped now and then through the branches. Sentiment and self must be resolutely put aside. "I don't care. He had no right to suppose I was not able to deal with those fops from town, and lie should not at tempt to control my actions." Nevertheless she was very heavy heart ed ya she turned to call her little flock together. As the day advanced the air grew more dense and sultry; the whole sky vas dark, and the sun rode through it like a dull red ball, while the smell of burning leaves and wood overpowered the faint marsh and forest |K'rfumes. The "openings" tires were spreading rapidly. At that time there were miles and miles of unsettled land —alternate ridges cov ered with oak and underbrush, and marshes where the dry grass and weeds were like tinder. Every year a few fires were expected, but there had been a se vere drouth this season, and already the men in the various settlements had or ganized into companies to fight fires, and save homes and property. From the "Cleaver district." as the place was called, the men had been out all night, and at noon none had returned. The schoolliouse stood on the rise of ground that, in any other part of the country, would have been called the bank of the stream; but here, where streams were only lengthened mud lioles, and the grass-tangled bottom rose imperceptibly into oak-covered ridges, one scarcely knew when lie was well out of a river bed; in the spring this same school house had stood a foot under water. Now jt was directly in the path of a huge natural fuse, and the fire creep ing along it not more than a mile away. Through sheer obstinence and pettish ness Julia refused to dismiss her school until the scholars, alarmed at the great columns of smoke that the rising wind swept over them, declared their inten tion of going home, whether or no. Some rail out into the middle of "the crik," and from there fancied they could see red flames gleaming ferociously; in stantly the children were panic stricken, and ran about crying, in aimless con fusion. Then Julia's real womanliness and strength rose to the surface, while the petty willfulness disappeared. She brought order into the childish ranks, bade them secure their books and prop erties and file out quietly, leading them herself through the woods, where the winding footpath led most of them to their homes. She saw that every one was safe in the care of parents, then composedly, hut quickly, made her way to the Cleaver homestead, where she boarded. She found every door open and not a soul in sight. Looking .out from the back porch, she could see ou the right the big barn full of hay, the sheds, wagons and farm machinery clustered near; on the left, the schoolliouse, still safe; before her and across the plowed fields, an arm of the woods, through which the clear space of the creek could be discerned, and a little more to the right, and farther away, the sweeping clouds of smoke pouring up and onward with hurrying density. Voices in quick, broken shouts fell on her ear, and grasping her straw hat she hastened out iu that direction. She found mother, sister, daughter and younger children eagerly flinging down the fences, scattering the rails widely over the bare ground. "We must get the fences down before the fire comes," cried Mary Cleaver, the eldest daughter, as she saw Julia ap proaching. "I'm glad you've come, and it's lucky your dress is woolen. The (ire is raging so that the little space of burned ground around the fences won't stay it at all. an' if it once gets to rnn nin' through them, barn, horses, hay, home and everything must go." "Where are the men?" "Over at John-oil's settlement, fight ing like heavers and dead tired out. Three houses and barns hare gone up a'ready." The hearty, rosy i hceked girl, in short worsted skirts and a man's coat and hat, tossed a huge knotty rail over her shoul der and looked at the little schooluia'ani with a superior air. "Are you equal to that sort of tiling for an hour or two?" Julia fancied she could hear the roar of the 011 coining flames, and already the air was stilling: but, for answer, grasped a rail in her lithe young arms, and flung it out as lightly as the stouter girl hat 1 done. How she worked! Her sleeves were soon torn from the round, white amis, and they were quickly rasped and scratched until tiny red streams ran down to her wrists. In her excitement she Hung rails about that she could not have lifted in ordinary moments; even the Cleaver girl looked at her admiringly, and suggested that "she take it easier." But there was little time for rest. A red flame leaped over the tops of the trees, here and there, and burning cinders were falling around tlieui; one more line of (ence must he, at least, partly scattered before there was safety. It was farther out and directly in the way of the thick est rain of flying cinders. But the two girls, one so slender, willowy and quick, the other strong and steady, attacked it with undaunted spirit, and just as the hot breath of the devouring monster stirred the hair on their brows the fire bait was rendered harmless. Julia was panting with exhaustion and wondering if she was going to faint, when Mrs. Cleaver came up with the frantic cry of; "Where is little Jeanette? Where in the world is the girl? Have you seen lier?" Jakie, the slow, old fashioned 12-year old, made his mother understand after a while that Jeanie had gone in the di rection of the fire—"'cause she wanted to see it burn," "That darin' child! She ain't afraid of nothin'.. She'll be burned alive!" And the woman tried to run and find her youngest born; hut weariness and emo tion overcame her eagerness and she fell helpless to the ground. Mary hastened to her mother's side, and no other wsman or child dared ven ture nearer toward the surging storm of flames and smoke that was bearing down upon them. Only Julia. She looked forward in dread hut for one moment, then calling up every reserve of strength and cour age, she paused like a bird ready for flight, thinking which was the best course, and with the grace and speed of a deer sprang through the bushes, call ing Jeanette's name. Toward the right the fire was not so near, and in that di rection Julia flew, peering under every bush and behind every ldg for the miss (ng girl. On and on, through the dense smoke, with the agonizing fear in her heart that the child had already met her terrible fate lending her a false strength, on and on she [Kissed, as long as a possi ble pathway opened before her. But suddenly she came upon a wall of fire; to turn aside was but to face another, until she realized with appalling force that she was hemmed in on every side. It seemed to her the fire fiend had sud denly encircled her, hv some skillful trick, and was mocking her despair. The sun refused to shine and the sky was blotted out in darkness; this was not the world, the bright, beautiful earth she had loved so well, hut some chaotic spacs out in the universe, where the elements were lighting for mastery. The quiet morning when she and Harry had stood" together making believe they did not love each other and were not happy must have been far away in some other life. She would never get bat k to that life again, never see llarry, never receive bis forgiveness, never let him know how dear he was. How sweet that faraway life and love now seemed to her! One chance remained. As yet nearly two acres of ground, comparatively bar ren of trees, was free from fire. She ran ami seized a fallen fagot, lighted the dead leaves where they were thickest and drvest, and before a square rod had burned and left the hare sod her kindled fire met the advancing column; she threw herself face downward on the smoldering ground, and awaited the sweep of the fiery tempest. Not a draught of air was there that was not also heat, smoke and ashes; and above and around, the hot sea roared and crackled, aR though it had conspired with all its forces to crush the life out of one weak little wo-' man. "This is death!"' was Julia's last thought, then came unconsciousness. It was 9 o'clock, and a soft rain was falling. Over the miles of desolated for ests still smoldered, in sullen defiance, spots of lire, but the fury of the elements had spent itself. Harry Seidell stood before a long, low log house, tying the panting horse that had brought him there on as fierce a gallop as ever steed was made to run. He was gazing eagerly now through open doors and windows even while engaged with earing for his horse, but no graceful form, with its piquant face, met his gaze. For this he was both glad and sorry. She had not come, she had obeyed his wishes, but was she safe after this terrible day? It was not a scene of merrymaking that he looked in upon, though several strangers were present, among them the two young men from town, standing a little apart from the others. The people seemed to he discussing something seriously, in little groups of two and three. The fiddler sat idly with his instrument at his feet, and the pans of apples and popcorn on the table re mained undisturbed; evidently the party was a failure. Harry stopped into the open door with out knocking; a silence fell upon the company, and none dared meet his gaze. "Mi-s Atherton is not here?" lie asked of the good woman of the house. "Alaekadayl she is not, sir; no more do any of us know where she is. They be" "What! Isn't she at home—at her boarding place, I mean?" "Not without she's come there within the last quarter of an hour. A parcel o' men has gone to look for her, though I they was that tired and worn out" Harry waited to hear no more, hut darted out, mounted his horse, and flew away to the (.'leaver place. She was not there, and Marv and the younger children were crying bitterly. "Ob, she can't be alive yet, I HUI very much illraid, "Mrs. Cleaver said choking ly. "and it's all m i.c omit of these mis chievous young Tin", that I should ever have it to say o' tli -ui. Jeanette she went olf among the corn stalks, all safe and sound, and .Jakie must betliinkin' be saw her goitT far (lie woods, to see the fire burn. They lie hero all safe, while the poor dear lady who went to lonk fur 'em be we none o' us knows where. Oh, but these 'uns 'll catch it when their father comes," at which the crying children set up a fresh hoivl. Pale and stern, Harry made theiii tell all they knew, then set out himself, knowing that, alive or dead, he should find his darling. Had the men not been so nearly worn out, they would have found her sooner, for it was not far, and there was no brushwood to hide the view. But the night was dark, their rude lanterns threw hut little light, and the men stum bled about half asleep. I .ova was more alert, in half an hour Harry wns bend ing over the poor unconscious form, in its wet and half burned dress, moaning over the blistered cheeks and arms, nnd calling wildly on her name. .She moved, as his arms enfolded her, and whispered his name, and this "I did not go to the party, you see; it's all right, isn't it, Harry?" Harry would never agree that it was "all right," until she could declare with a smooth and blooming face, many weeks after, that she was as well as ever, and would come to town to be his little wife and housekeeper, instead of remaining the "Cleaver district school ma'am." "Indeed," lie said, "as your seliool liouse is burned to the ground and the directors will not build another until they are able to put up a fine brick one, your occupation is gone, and there is no alternative." Julia did not look as though the alter native was very distasteful.—May Hunt lev in Yankee Blade. Light. unit Dark Cigars. In reference to the distinction between light and dark cigars, smokers nearly al ways express a preference for one or the other, but they get practically the same thing. The difference lies only in the wrapper, although the general impres sion is that a dark colored cigar is much stronger. Nearly all brands of cigars have two shades, but the filling is the same in both. 1 have told my customers so time and time again, but 1 can't make tliem believe wc.— Cincinnati Times Star. WATERS OF MYSTERY. STRANGE LAKES AND LAKE REGIONS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. THE YUGITRIEIT OF TITICACTT ANIL THE LEGEMLS (JltiMtetiiig About Its Shores —Where the MORMON* CLIITHE THEIR HUME —DEVIL'S I.UKE VIEWED WITH AWE. When mystery and history go hand in band the combination assumes an inter est entirely foreign to that attaching to the accepted phases of physical sur roundings or the development of a peo ple. The Mississippi overflows its banks and carries widespread desolation to fer- LAKE TITICACA tile fields, but there is nothing strange about that, for the veriest school boy can reason from the cause to the effect of the flood. The thirteen colonies of the last century are the United States of today, but the progress from provinces to a re public was along lines that, while indi cating gigantic development under great trials, show nothing miraculous in the outcome. But the occurrence of strange events in strange localities is a matter that can never fail to attract the atten tion as well of the busy citizen as the contemplative philosopher. On the islands of Lake Titicaca the re ligion of Manco Capac and the long suc cession of the Incas had their origin. By the shores of the great Salt Lake of Utah Brigham Young founded a colony and perfected a creed. Each body of water in its way is as peculiar as Iho people who lived and planned and struggled along its banks. Lake Titicaca lies in Peru at a height of nearly 19,000 feet above the level of the sea. Yet despite this unusual eleva tion and the cold of the surrounding country, the large oval of water —120 miles at its greatest length and 00 miles wide —never freezes and diffuses over the islands within its circumference, and the land coming immediately under the influence of its moisture, a warmth which renders the soil capable of pro ducing crops naturally indigenous to a much lower level. Enormous springs at intervals bubble up in steaming clouds through the ordinarily placid waters, and sometimes, while skies are clear and no wind blows, vast waves roll from shore to shore with mighty wrath. SALT LAKE. UTAH. To this mysterious land, in the days when the world was young, came Manco Capac, the child of the sun. He looked about him and saw the world buried in ignorance and savage brutishuess. He founded the long line of Ineas, made Peru the treasure bouse of the western world, ami established a unique civiliza tion which gave way, after the lapse of centuries, before the blows of the Span ish conqueror. But to this hour the peon remnant of the once ruling race looks to the mysterious waters of the sacred lake for the appearance of a deliverer, and views with expectant awe the unex* plainahle convulsions that agitate their bosom. Over trackless plains and through uncounted perils the Mormons of a past generation made their way to the territory now known as Utah, and pitched their tents in a barren land by the shores of the great Salt lake. Their environment was as singular as their be lief. Before them lay a body of water clear and green, in whose depths life be came death, and whose shores glittered not with the varied hues of vegetation, but with the white brilliance of innumer able crystals. Within the limit of the lake's influence boiled and bubbled un counted pools; here one scalding hot, and there one icy cold, and again an other seething with carbonic acid gas. Strange streams ran into the saline reser voir, whose waters were clear and taste less, but which stained with brown everything* they touched. Yet in this locality, apparently cursed by nature with barrenness and desolation, the pil grims from the east set to work. How they caused the desert to blossom like the rose, and how they perfected the de tails of a spiritual despotism are matters too well known to demand anything fur ther than a passing reference. DEVIL'S LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA. In North Dakota may be found a noted body of water around which lin ger weird traditions, and which is even at present the scene of supernatural visi tations. Before the advent of the white man no Indian could bo induced to ven ture his canoe on the smiling surface of Devil's lake or bathe within its cool em brace. Wakantanka, the spirit of evil, held sway there, and Wakantanka re sented auy disturbance of bis wicked meditations. Long since he bad vented his wrath on a party of braves who haC essayed to cross the waters. He had called the god of the north wind to his aid and engulfed the venturesome red men by means of a tierce storm. From that on the Indian Lucifer had things his own way until the arrival of the pale face, who laughed his [tower toscorn and set afloat a small steamer. As the vessel met with no disaster, the awe of the Sioux was finally changed to contempt for his satanic majesty, and they now paddle about the islands 01 swim at will in the shallows along the beach. Yet the charm of mystery still lingers, and even white residents tell strange stories of spectral boats that go gliding by at night from nowhere unto nowhere, and assert that when the ice breaks up in the spring it sinks at once to the bottom. Devil's lake is gradually growing smaller in size, and its waters are becoming slightly saline. The shores are strewn with bowlders, agates and various sorts of rocks, which, either be cause of glacial action or some convul sion of nature, display curious shapes. The lake has no visible outlet, and bul small apparent supply. Pend d'Oreille lake in Montana shows near its center a point of rock which no Indian, even to this day, can be induced to pass, fearing that the Great Spirit in such an event will create a commotion and cause him to lie swallowed up by the waves. Near Pend d'Oreille the aborigines say there is a never freezing body of water surrounded by high and precipitous rocks which no one has ever been able to descend. Peering over the cliffs one may see countless buffalo, deer, elk and other game disporting themselves in the depths of the trans parent waters. It is hardly necessary to add that no white man has ever viewed this remarkable phenomenon. MIRROR LAKE, YOSEMITE. Speakiv..- of transparent lakes, how ever, there is one—not mythical, but ac tual —which is among the world's most famous lieauty spots. It is that dainty gem in the Yosemite valley called Mirror lake. Only a mile in circumference, it seems to have been placed there for the encircling mountains to see their forms and faces in. The remarkable clearness of the water and of the surrounding at mosphere makes the reflected images of the rocks and trees almost as distinct and sharply defined as the actual objects. Around the most hideous tiling that receives the geographical name of lake cluster the horrible traditions of the vilest superstition that ever distorted the brain of even barbarian man. The sheet of water, so called, is Pitch lake, thirty-six miles from Port of Spain, in Trinidad, and its gloomy offensiveness has made it a fit place lor the celebration of the awful rites of voudoo. This famous cesspool, for it can hardly deserve a better name, covers a space of 99 acres, and contains millions of tons of bitumen, which pervades the air with its smell. On approaching the spot the evil odors grow oppressive and sicken ing. It is a veritable Stygian pool, and presents a most singular appearance as it glares and glitters in the sun. Narrow channels of water divide the black mass into hundreds of isolated patches. Small islands struggle along thecenter, covered with thick low scrub. Hereabouts the PITCH LAKE, TIUNIDAD. pitch is yellow and white with sulphur foam, and loathsome bubbles of gas arise to taint still further the already heavily burdened air. In secluded nooks near this lake of pitch the negroes for merly met by stealth and night to make their sacrifices to Voudoo, and dread traditions still exist of children devoted to death in honor of the insatiate demon. 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