Miraculously Saved

Up in the city hall they were talking about fires the other day, and somebody spoke oL the narrow escape a cit izen had not long ago. Acoortling to the story he left a certain dwelling jus ten minutes before it was struck by lightning. "It was an awful close cali," said th narrator. Chief Dickinson's eyes twinkled. "That reminds me of a narrow es cape I had during the war," he sai "I arrived on the field of battle- it wa one of the fieroest engagements of th war- just twenty-four hours after th fight was over. Of course, if I had beeD there in time I would have been killec In fact, I have ofton thcught, with shudder, of that unusually close cali. And the man with the lightning stor