The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-02-23

V families, named,
respectively, Wilson and Moreau.
The aforementioned consisted of
father, mother and their fve-year old
twin boys, Samuel and Peter while
Narcisse and Mrs. Moreau had but one
child, girl of fifteen, called Marie
Marie Moreau--a name almost as
pretty as was its American French
descended owner.
In addition to remarkable beauty,
Marie possessed the still more precious
gift of a sweet, unselhsh disposition.
and was, moreover, the foremost
among all the scholars attending the
somewhat distant country school.
But, for a girl brought up in the
woods, she was neither very large nor
strong for her age, and the perform
ance of a specially daring deed was
the last thing of which any one could
have supposed her capable.
The two Lighthouses of these fam
lilies stood 800 yards apart, in the
midst of cleared fields, and consider
ably more than that distance from any
standing timber, the nearest piece of
woods being a tract of primeyal forest
lying over a quarter-mile southwest of
and facing both, so that it seemed
hardly possible for either to be en-
dangered.
Up to the 10th ofthe month, though
the surrounding atmosphere was then
somewhat darkened by smoke waited
from the great confagration at Chi
cago, no fires had broken out in the
Wilson Moreau neighborhood On
that day, in accordance with a
previously made appointment, the
heads of both families drove away to
Farwell village, sixteen miles distant,
to make the final payments on and re.
ceiye deeds of their respective farms,
Mrs. Wilson leaving the twins in
charge of Marie, not another person
living within two miles of her house.
The party set out in Moreau's farm
wagon at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
promising to return not later than
nine that same night.
Marie, well pleased at the prospect
of having curly -heeded Sammy and
"Pete" all to herself for a whole day,
spent delightful forenoon playing
with and amusing the little fellows,
and in due time prepared in their
honor a regular holiday feast, while
discussing which Sammy ingenuously
remarked:
Me likes mudder to so way in
big wagon"
80 does me" chimed in Pete,
"cause us gets lots of pies an cakes
den"
'Tm rather afraid" merrily said
Marie, that I'm giving you little
rogues too many sweet things; but
you can run outdoors now and scampel
round while [ wash up the dishes.
Gus couldn't have too much honey
and jam, could us, Pete?" sagely OBJ
served Master Sammy.
'Dess not; they's awful good" re
joined Pete, and the pair rushed glee
fully out.
But the next moment, though fol
lowed by cloud of dust and smoke
they rushed still more gleefully il
again, shouting: ooh, auntie"--a
the youngsters always called Marie
there's b'u'ful big fire out in tn,
woods. Mebbe Wen have 'nuddel
Fourth July!'
Much to the twins surprise, Mari,
received their joyful tidings with al
alarmed cry, and, hurryiag TO tn,
door, she saw that, just beginning t.
show through the trees, a great fir,
was raging in the heart of the fores
and, driven by the southeast gale, wa
rapidly approaching the clearings.
On the instant the clear headed cir
realized the danger; for, parched b,
six weeks drought, not only tn
grass and stubble but also the uppe
soil itself was as dry as gunpowde-
and, helped on by numerous raj
fences, the flames would be sure t
sweep across the fields and destro
both houses, as well as every Twin
thing lying in their path But, " sn
reasoned, ''the very violence of tn
wind will keep the fire to a northoas