The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-11-26


fire place. " Don't GO clear back 70 The
wood house this cold night"
"a place for everything and everything
in its place" replied Lyman, and the axe
was returned TO the wood-house.
"Now that's what call superstiti.
Gus, said his father, while he took from
the open closet a splinter broom 10 sweep
up the wide spread Goals Of the FIRE he had
just naked. just as hs was finishing his
wife called to him from the kitchen, and
hastily MrVscing The broom into tie closet
he went 10 her.
i "John," she said, "there is no water ip
the house"
Well, what of that? ?"
"Why you know neverlike 10 90 to led
! without pail of w.ter vt hand. y
!" know that is one of your superslti-
ons," he said
John Leake, 10 spite of all bis expert.
enoe, persisted in locking upon the proyi-
sions of foresight as supestitioua
!" Let II 90, just for this ore night,
wife, it is dark, and biting cold, and the
way up 70 the well i al shod with CLASSY
icc."
"'Tis bad said his wife, meekiy, and
urged no moro bu: az she locked
wishfully at the empty pail, she thought
II she should chance TO want water in the
night,it would not be any better getting it
and an anxious sigh escaped her. Com
ing events 30 sometimes seem 10 "east
their shadows before"
The family were soon al in bed, and in
their first sleep, the proioundest Of the
! night, but there is no sleep from which
mother cannot be sGakened by restless
child and about one o'clock Mrs Leake
was aroused from hers by the nesting of
her baby. She instantly awakened her
husband with,
John, do get up and see where this
smoke comes from the room is full If
il" ke.s. ----'.---- --- ,-aa<.sSs,st
The bedroom vas of the setting room
the door was opened into it, and the mo-
ment Leake raised his head he saw brigh.
light shining through the creviccs of the
closet door into which he had thrown the
splinter broom.
DrSS sSs small sGas had si adbeEssar e. the
shut in the closet with very little air, they
had been slow in kindling, but now they
had kindled thoroughly, aud when Leske
sprang 70 the closet door and opened il,
the broom was in o light blaze, and the
heated partition had taken FIRE. John
seized the broom and threw il on the FIRE
place, and at the moment,the fro had made
so little progress that single pail of
water at hand would have extipguished
| il.
"Oh the pail Of notcr :" shrieked
Mrs Leake. Leake thought with anguish
Of the empty pail, rushed TO the kitchen
for il and rushed TO the we'll The
ground was decendng TO the house, and,
as he said, slippery a. glass" and Leake
fell And again he let the bucket down
20 the deep well and filed his pail aud
reached the house with it but the air had
rushed in through the open door and blew
up the FIRE like furnace bellows
1t would not now have felt twenty pals
If water The smoke filled the whole
house aud the cracking of the FIRE and
the outcries OF John and his wife had
awakened the whole family, who had now
came out--all excepting the two girls who
had bolted themselves into the little bed,
had talked together late into the night, and
were now sleeping on, in spite of all the
mischief danger and misery around them.
Lyman rushed through tho outer room
filed to suffocation with smoke, and Shrek
ed, "Annie Sally FIRE fire p There
was no answer In vain lie banged against
the door; it was too securely bolted -
Quick Us thought he spraDg to window
communicating with tue wood house, raes
through il, and in moment seturued with
his axe The smoke had become fire
the room was blazing. But with HeaveD's g
help and blessing, he said he could not
possibly have done it alone) in breath
the door was battered down, and in anoth-
er breath the girls jumped from the win.
dow, uahaymed, followed BY Lyman.
The rapid consumption of wood-house
in the country in a cold, gusty night eau
scarcely be conceived of BY those who have
not witnessed IT, There was but just time
/ to extricate the horses and cattle from the
stable when that as well as til, house and
wood house was cnvcloped in flames All,
as Leake's neighbor had forwa. ned him,
went together, and in one mass of ashes
lay the labor Of many mouths-tbe dear
old furniture OF the Connecticut hone, all
the children's pretty things, fond memorial,
and precious keep-sskes, that no toll, 10
kindness could make to them. And
all the dreadful loss, as Mr.. Curtis would
rereat to his listeners in the school, "for
the want OF pail of rater in the right
place. And life saved by the axe being
in the right place, instead OF having boen
thrown into the closet, as Leake proposed
beside the broom, by the careless use of
which all the harm was done"
GONE UP.-The Corunns Democrat, a
sickly Democratic sheet, immediately after
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